This fact sheet on violence against children from the World Health Organization (WHO) provides a brief overview of violence against children around the world.

The objective of this study was to assess malnutrition and psychosocial dysfunction among vulnerable children as well as to determine the association between malnutrition and psychosocial dysfunction among orphan and vulnerable children in Kaski district, Nepal. 

This paper focuses on understanding how the key stakeholders of the foster care system work together, as well as the systems that facilitate collaboration.

The current study makes analyses of the national strategy for deinstitutionalization of children and concludes on important recommendations concerning national policy development. 

This paper analyses the experiences of adolescents in foster care placement with specific reference to participatory decision making in an indigenous African cultural context in South Africa. 

This study used a mixed-methods multiphase, iterative process to illuminate the congruencies and incongruencies between the young adults' accounts of their foster care experiences and the legalistic, system-focused view of their experiences. 

By drawing on an empirical study on placing disabled children for adoption, the article seeks to demonstrate the practical application of critical realist by combining its Retroductive framework with Grounded Theory methods. 

This data brief presents data highlights that compare the outcomes reported by youth in the second NYTD cohort at ages 17 and 19.

This report provides preliminary estimates of U.S. Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for Fiscal Year 2015.

This study contributes to current research on the behavior problems of children in foster care by analyzing a more comprehensive set of concurrent child history and contextual predictors. 

This review aims to systematically review methodological challenges and limitations of interventions designed to help carers meet the needs of children in alternative care, to provide an analysis of the current state of the evidence base for these interventions.

To increase knowledge of foster children’s needs and how these are conceptualized, this paper presents a systematic literature review. 

This article compares blank care order application templates used in four countries (England, Finland, Norway, and USA (California)), treating them as a vital part of the ‘institutional scripts’ that shape practice, and embody state principles of child protection. 

The article explores the inclusion of unaccompanied migrant children reaching Italy without their parents or a legal guardian.

The aim of this special issue of the International Journal of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is to examine the outcomes of children who were raised for part of their childhood in out-of-home care, including in foster care and institutions. 

This study examines adult outcomes of youths (N=251) who spent time in a Dutch judicial treatment institution.

This paper discusses the results of a qualitative study on adult care leavers in Flanders (Belgium).

This paper examines the post-compulsory educational pathways of young people who have spent some or all of their childhoods in local authority.

This brief article will outline the path to the provision of an explicit entitlement to aftercare in Ireland.

The aim of this study was to examine the outcomes of out-of-home placement in adolescence.

This paper examines how types and sources of social support vary by youths’ foster care placement and foster care status at age 19.

This article explores whether the number of visits by birth parents influence perceptions of attachment, children’s competence and mental health, and stress levels in foster parents.

Concern about the effectiveness of Serious Case Reviews for generating improvements in child protection in England led to proposals in the Wood review to replace the current system with rapid local learning inquiries and a national system of learning from significant incidents. This article challenges both the analysis in the Wood review and the proposals themselves. 

A First Nations child welfare organization has prioritized further understanding of reunification and parenting, including identification of successes and barriers to reunification, and service needs within communities. These priorities were addressed with a community-based participatory research model and guided by a Research Advisory.