This report tracks the progress and celebrates the success of how a new child protection system - encompassing prevention, emergency hospital care, alternative family care (AFC) and permanent solutions - was introduced into an Islamic context.
This briefing paper underlines the issue of the lack of accurate and reliable data on children outside family care and provides insight on how to move forward in closing the data gap to ensure all children are counted.
This document is an adapted presentation created by Florence Martin of Better Care Network and Katie Rice of Save the Children UK describing the Tracking Progress Initiative.
This document summarizes the content of the 6-7 October 2016 Network Meeting of National Statistical Offices. The event comprised of a number of presentations on topics related to the SDGs and data on children in alternative care.
This statistical release provides information about looked after children in England for the year ending 31 March 2016, including where they are placed, their legal status, the numbers starting and ceasing to be looked after, and the numbers who go missing or are away from their placement without authorisation.
This analysis was produced as part of an independent review into children's residential care in England and provides data on children living in all types of residential care facilities in the country as of 31 March 2015.
The U.S. Census Bureau's Demographic Analysis shows that young children (age 0 to 4) had a higher net undercount rate than any other age group in the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census. This paper identifies key patterns relative to the net undercount of young children in U.S. data and examines data available in other countries to see whether these data patterns exist in other country contexts.
This article examines the discoursal shift to “reintegration” within trafficking protection programmes and policy, with emphasis upon Cambodia.
This policy outlines the issues of voluntourism and orphanages in relation to child protection, and states the criteria by which organisations (private commercial companies, social enterprises and charities) involved in voluntourism activities may apply to join The Code.
The alternative care assessment examines the current social welfare systems and processes rather than on the specific quality of care in the various children’s homes as standards have already been developed.
This paper reports the findings of an Australian study that examined longitudinal data on reasons for entry to care, trajectories in care and patterns of reunification and associated factors.
The research which is the focus of this report involves systematic learning about existing CBCPMs and their linkage with formal, government led aspects of the wider child protection system.
This study examined the extent to which children and adolescents participated in decisions that affected them at the points of removal and reunification in the child protection process in Spain.
This document includes the appendices for the Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care study, which privides a complete picture of the study's research methods and quantitative data collected.
The aim of this study was to explore how young people who have been in care, and their carers, conceptualise permanence and stability.
The purpose of this review document is to inform the development of an African Partnership for quality in the care of orphans and vulnerable children. By reviewing experiences to date in similar efforts, this review identifies best practices and challenges that may inform the development of a regional partnership focusing on quality.
This document contains the Procedures and Practice Guidelines for Foster Care and Adoption in Lesotho.
A document containing the policy for foster care and adoption in Lesotho.
The objectives of this study, which was conducted from January-April 2011 in Sierra Leone, were: to learn about local beliefs and values concerning children, childhood and harms to children; to explore the actions that communities take and the mechanisms that they use for children’s protection; and to understand if and how these actions and mechanisms are linked to the government-led child protection system.
This Declaration on Child Rights and Wellbeing was adopted by the Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) in Bujumbura on 3rd September 2012 during the First EAC Child Rights Conference under the theme, “Addressing the issues that negatively impact on the realisation of child rights in the EAC.”
This mapping process was commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in order to facilitate the transitioning of Uganda’s approach to child protection from a disjointed, issue-based and project-oriented approach to a more system-oriented approach in order to respond effectively to the multi-dimensional and complex child protection needs of all children in the country.
The purpose of this research is to learn about community-based child protection processes and mechanisms in two refugee camps in Rwanda – Gihembe and Kiziba.
This article is based on interviews with 19 child care policy experts including policy advocates, researchers, and funders.
Analyzing rich data from in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, Next Generation researchers documented the challenges that low-income families face as they patch together a variety of arrangements to meet their child care needs.
