Integrating Social Protection and Child Protection Services for Better Outcomes for Children in the Middle East and North Africa

Karen Codazzi Pereira, Fernando Araújo, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)

This research report, developed by the IPC-IG and the UNICEF MENA Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa, presents five case studies that demonstrate how integrated social protection and child protection systems enhance efficiency, especially of the social service workforce, and improve socio-economic and child outcomes: Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Egypt, and Brazil.

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Integrating social protection and child protection services for better outcomes for children in the Middle East and North Africa

Foster Caring as ‘Professional Parenting’: A Grounded Theory of the Relationships Between Parent and Professional in Long-Term Foster Care

Megan Hollett, Alex Hassett, Virginia Lumsden

This UK-based study aimed to develop an explanatory theory and model of the processes involved in fostering looked after children and the relationship between the roles of parent and professional.

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Foster caring as ‘professional parenting’: A grounded theory of the relationships between parent and professional in long-term foster care

Understanding Catalysts for Transition: Dynamics Leading to the Uptake of Transition Amongst Charitable Children’s Institutions in Kenya

Better Care Network, Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC)

This study was designed to be a small insights-based qualitative learning and reflection study to explore catalysts for transition. It was based on interviews conducted with Charitable Children’s Institutions’ (CCI) directors that sought to identify and explore the range of factors that influenced each director’s decision to transition their residential care services, and the interplay between those factors.

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Understanding Catalysts for Transition

National Care Service - Stage 1 Report from the Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee

Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee

In their Stage 1 Report published on 19 December, the Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee warned that plans to integrate children's services into the National Care Service lack vital information; it is not currently possible to have a clear view on whether children’s services should be included under a National Care Service; and urged the government to provide more details on the financial implications.

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National Care Service

Strengthening Alternative Care Practices for Children in Need of Care and Protection Under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015

Judith Harwin, Lily Golding

This UK Department for Education report charts the experiences and views of parents in the UK whose children were made subject to a supervision order or a care order at home at the end of care proceedings.

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Supporting families after care proceedings: supervision orders and beyond

Indigenous Services Leading the Way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Out-of-Home Care

Sandra Creamera, Suzi Blairb, Maree Toombs, Claire E Brolan

This study aims to provide evidence and instruction to social work educators, policymakers and practitioners
in Australia’s child protection, wellbeing, and justice systems about why and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander controlled organizations are best placed to lead out-of-home care service delivery for Indigenous children, their family and community.

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Indigenous services leading the way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children Living in Shelters and Children in the Community (Review)

Elisavet Damaskopoulou, Eleni Papakonstantinou, Flora Bacopoulou, Elias Eliopoulos, George P. Chrousos, Dimitrios Vlachakis

This article in the World Academy of Science Journal reviews some of the latest global studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children in residential care and children living with their families.

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children living in shelters and children in the community (Review)

It’s Complicated: A Longitudinal Exploration of Young People’s Perceptions of Out-of-Home Care and Their Reflections on How to Change the Child Welfare System

Heather Taussig, Michelle R. Munson

In this U.S.-based study, over 200 pre-adolescent children recently placed into out-of-home care were asked about the difficulty and helpfulness of placement and how their lives might be different had they not been removed. The same participants were interviewed 10 years later.