Based on data collected from a 2003 nationwide study, this article examines how left-behind children (specifically those aged 10–12 years old and adolescents) cope without their migrant parents.

This video from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute explains how the state of Missouri in the US reformed its child welfare system by strengthening the social service workforce. 

This report provides data and background on challenges of placing siblings together in foster families.

This special report from the Education Commission of the States describes initiatives and policy changes underway in the US that support foster youth in pursuing postsecondary education.

This paper attempts to highlight and discuss some critical issues regarding unaccompanied migrant minors in Europe. 

The current study tests the ‘overburdening’ hypothesis that examines whether taking on the demands of work and school at the same time could overwhelm and actually hinder the healthy development of youth as they transition from foster care. 

This sudy sought to deepen understanding of the underlying patterns of services receipt of the  John F. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP) to prepare for youth’s successful transition to adulthood. The authors used multi-level latent class analysis (MLCA) to identify underlying combinations of service receipt that may be influenced by youth-level and state-level characteristics.

The present study examined whether the prospective association between cumulative pre-adoptive risk (e.g., maltreatment, age at placement, foster placement instability, ever having lived with birth parent) and adolescent/young-adult substance use was mediated by childhood internalizing and externalizing problems in youth adopted from foster care.

In this study, the authors examined the process of how relationships are built between Ethiopia adoptees and their adoptive families within the new family setting.

The present study concerning domestic adoption explored the adjustment of 37 adolescents and 22 emerging adults (with age ranging between 11 and 18 and 18 and 24 years, respectively), adopted through an Italian form of open adoption, and analyzed the quality of adoptive family relationships and adoptees' attachment as possible moderating variables in the relation between multiple pre-adoptive risk factors and adoptees' outcomes.

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' applies the theorising emerging from mobilities discourses and applies them to children’s services. 

This article gives weight to children’s perspectives, and reports on the views of looked after children aged 7 to 10 in Scotland during the Letterbox Club project.

The aim of this article is to analyse juridification and standardisation as two legal dimensions influencing contemporary child-protection work, and to discuss its implications for practice.

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' aims to discover the delicate dynamics of trust within the specific professional and service user relations in work with children and young people who are either Looked After or at risk of significant harm.

The introductory chapter of 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' starts with a reflection from the author’s personal experience of social work practice and working with a family where the children are neglected and on the child protection register as a result.

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' examines competing understandings of child welfare.

This randomised controlled trial will evaluate the Fostering Changes programme in Wales, a 12-week group-based training programme for foster and kin carers.

This book makes a distinctive contribution to reflections on what child-centred practice means in the complex area of child welfare. 

Within this chapter (from the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare,') three child abuse inquiry and Serious Case Review reports are explored to understand the contemporary landscape of Children’s Services and the ongoing challenges involved in protecting children and young people from harm.

This chapter outlines the interdisciplinary framework for understanding child welfare used throughout the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare.'

This chapter, from the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare,' explores the emotional and sensory dimensions of child welfare as an embodied practice which takes place across diverse sites, spaces and places. 

This chapter from the book 'Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' focuses on foster care and residential care practices around the world and the benefits and challenges of supporting foster care interventions, transitioning away from the use of institutional care.

This article reviews and analyzes data from recent literature about recognition and processing of facial expressions in individuals with history of childhood neglect. 

This study explores the relationship between orphanhood prevalence, living arrangements and orphanhood reporting.