This animated video from Forget Me Not and The Umbrella Foundation, tells the story of a young child placed in an orphanage and highlights the pain and trauma of family separation, the impacts of a revolving door of volunteers on children in institutions, and the ways in which volunteering fuels the orphanage industry.
This Report was drafted by a group of independent experts convened by Commissioner of the European Commission, Vladimír Špidla, in February 2009 to address the issues of institutional care reform in their complexity. The report addresses recommendations to Member States which have the main responsibility for action in this area.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
This guidance is designed for social service professionals to better serve guardianship families by learning about the dynamics of the family’s permanent relationships, factors that influenced their decision-making in choosing the guardianship option, and how those decisions might affect the family’s current situation.
This document provides an overview of the benefits, costs, and practice implications for adoptions from foster care in the US.
The study addresses the needs of Scottish kinship carers of teenage children who have been identified as being in need of extra support.
This study reports the characteristics and needs of 2,045 young people who were under supervision in secure custody or detention in South Australia between 1995 and 2012 according to the level of exposure to the child protection system in an Australian jurisdiction.
The article deals with the problem of socialization of orphan children in the process of relationships between the individual and a society based on the implementation of existing individual features in social learning, self-knowledge and self-realization, that provides in turn social knowledge, social skills and social experience of the individual.
This article discusses caregivers’ and young people’s experiences of a novel approach to sibling contact, Siblings Forever, an event devised to overcome some of the tensions and frustrations in usual arrangements.
This article presents findings from research into how young people growing up in foster care in the UK manage the relationships in their social networks and gain access to social capital.
Family for Every Child examined the critical issue of sexual violence affecting boys through this global scoping study, Caring for Boys Affected by Sexual Violence.
This study aimed at investigating prevalence and precursors of breakdowns in long‐term foster care, the duration of placement before breakdown, and the association of child and placement characteristics with breakdown.
This paper presents a model of care‐leaving that incorporates developments in the political economy of health literature to show how differing welfare state arrangements shape health by mediating the distribution of economic and social resources over the life course for populations in general and for those in and leaving care specifically.
Guided by the Cultural Competence Attainment Model, the purpose of this study is to examine how socio‐demographic and work characteristics are associated with variations in child welfare professionals' (CWPs) attitudes about father involvement and family instability and how these attitudes are linked with whether they view relationship and marriage education as relevant to their efforts to support families.
The INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework is designed to help governments and non-governmental organizations monitor progress and track change over time as they implement INSPIRE strategies to prevent and respond to violence against children.
This paper presents findings from a study in which semistructured interviews were conducted with 33 parents court ordered to participate in a parent education group due to involvement with the child welfare system.
This paper presents findings from an 18-month randomized controlled trial in which intact families (N = 122) with at least one CPS report were provided with a facilitated connection to a paraprofessional evidence-based HV program or usual care services from child protection.
This study examined educational attainment and earnings among former foster youth in early adulthood.
The Global Compact forms a basis to improve governance and international understanding of migration, to address the challenges associated with migration today, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development.
This article looks at how charity organizations running private residential child care institutions on the Kenyan coast make use of the personal data of children in their care, as a means of securing and maintaining the support of donors from the global North.
This revised version of Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children describes the four main types of abuse and sets out the steps which should be taken to ensure that the child or young person is protected from harm.
This bulletin for professionals addresses the scope of the problem of child neglect, its consequences, and the importance of prevention.
This factsheet outlines the types of adoption support and preservation services available in the U.S., their benefits, and ways to find services in your area.
