This article explores the implications of austerity for professional child and family social workers in the UK.

This Article argues that Alaska should adopt a threestep approach to achieve better outcomes based on the American Bar Association’s model licensing standards, which are narrowly tailored to evaluate whether a child should be placed with a relative. 

This briefing note has been written to give Australian charities currently engaging with overseas residential care institutions an overview of the issue and an understanding of some of the potential ramifications of the proposed Modern Slavery legislation.

This briefing note has been written to give Australian churches an overview of the issue of orphanage tourism and an understanding of the likely ramifications of the legislation for churches.

The Situation Analysis aims to increase the understanding of the scope of the problem of vulnerable children and the response to it, including the full spectrum of core services, in order to facilitate country-wide planning and to inform current and future programming efforts. 

This paper provides a review of international and Ugandan literature on social care and support services particularly focussing on identifying key lessons that are relevant to the Ugandan context. 

This report presents data on the total number of adoptions in the United States as well as the number of public, intercountry, and other adoptions. 

This bulletin offers information to help US child welfare agency managers by providing strategies for achieving reunification and preventing reentry and includes examples of promising practices being implemented by States and localities.

This study examined the prevalence of child maltreatment as measured by the level of physical (moderate to severe) and emotional abuse and child labor, and the associated household level determinants of child maltreatment in Nepal. 

This is a prospective study of 28 family mentors providing peer recovery support services to 783 families with child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders (SUD) over 8 years in a family-centered integrated program with SUD treatment providers.

In this video from Time for Global Action: Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, Stephen Ucembe shares his experience of living in an orphanage and how institutionalization was detrimental to his development and wellbeing. 

This joint comment lays out recommendations for protecting the rights of unaccompanied minors as well as those who have been separated from their families due to migration.

This session of the World Travel Market in London focused on orphanage tourism and featured speakers from the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative and other partners, including Save the Children, Friends International, Lumos, and People and Places.

On 17 August 2017, the Australian Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee was briefed by representatives from the Cambodian Children’s Trust and Forget Me Not Foundation on the issue of orphanage tourism. This link includes a video of the opening statements from this briefing.

This document includes the full transcript of the public hearings of the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry in preparation for a Modern Slavery Act. 

This study contributes to the literature by examining risk and protective factors of chronic neglect.

This study examined the psychological wellbeing of children in institutions and their various coping mechanisms.

The current qualitative study examines the lived experiences of the women and children in the Mothers Unit from the subjective perspective of the women currently or previously involved in the programme and of the professionals working with them. 

This expert paper by Forget Me Not Australia was published as a part of the Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism and it presents as a case study the story of the organization from its founding to its current work. 

This analysis drew from a study in which child welfare professionals were interviewed about their definitions of “well-being” and the barriers and facilitators to promoting well-being in their daily practices. 

The present study is based on life mode interviews with social workers who started their careers in child protection services, focusing on their daily lives as newly graduated professionals. 

This brief from the Human Rights Campaign explains why US state laws allowing taxpayer-funded child welfare programs (adoption and foster care services) to discriminate against LGBTQ parents, carers and children is not in the best interests of children.

This paper summarizes the different interventions used with URMs to get an overview of techniques used for reducing psychopathologies and difficulties of URMs and to give recommendations to help professionals. 

Health Share of Oregon collaborated with the Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE) to explore how the foster care experience influences people’s lives and their interactions and attitudes about health and health care. 

The purpose of the study was to establish the influence of cash transfer for orphans and vulnerable children programme on civil registration in Karaba Location of Mbeere South Subcounty. The study sought to determine how demographic characteristics of the caregivers, challenges faced by caregivers, household priorities of caregivers and household size affect civil registration.