This toolkit contains caseworker forms for: conducting child and family assessments, consent and assent from caregivers and children, case planning, placement of children and young adults, monitoring, case reviews, case closures, referrals, caregiver and child feedback, and more.

This Facilitator’s Guide is for use by the varied facilitators of the 'Promoting Family- or Community-Based Care Using a Case Management Approach Workshop,' including national and county trainer of trainers from Kenya's Department of Children's Services, and trained staff from other care reform partners.

This guide provides an overview of the principles and practices of case management for reunification and placement of children outside of parental care (e.g., children from Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs) and Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs) , and street-connected children) into family- and community-based care in Kenya.

This handbook is a key tool for supporting care reform in Kenya, promoting family-based alternative care for children, and moving away from institutional care. 

Kenya's Department of Children’s Services (DCS), and its care reform partners within government and civil society, developed this Facilitator’s Training Manual for training on implementing the Guidelines for the Alternative Family Care of Children with the intent to streamline and standardize alternative family care services in Kenya through standardized training. This comprehensive training package includes the training facilitator’s manual, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, case studies, and video clips.

The current study aimed to examine effects of pre-adoptive risk on long-term functioning in children adopted from foster care.

This chapter reviews the state of the art in the study of caseworkers' psychosocial processes underlying the out-of-home placement decision following instances of child maltreatment by integrating existing literature on both child protection and social psychology.

This mixed methods research project, involving twenty participating local authorities and eight voluntary organisations from a wide geographic spread across England, was carried out between 2017 and 2019. The study was designed to investigate fathers and their recurring appearance in care proceedings at a macro, meso and micro level, with each element collecting and analysing data for distinct but related research questions.

This paper argues that kinship care – the care of children by relatives or friends of the family – represents the greatest resource available for meeting the needs of girls and boys who are orphaned or otherwise live apart from their parents.

This toolkit is developed for use by the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) and its partners engaged in care reform in Kenya. The tools herein are designed for a rapid situational analysis of children’s care institutions/statutory care institutions (CCI/SCIs) and the children living in them, and as a complement to any information already existing in the child protection information management system (CPIMS) or other government endorsed data.

The purpose of the situational analysis is to provide a snapshot of Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs), other private childcare institutions and Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs), and the children living in them in Nyamira County, Kenya.

The purpose of the situational analysis is to provide a snapshot of Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs), other private childcare institutions and Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs) and the children living in them in Kilifi County, Kenya.

The purpose of the situational analysis is to provide a snapshot of Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs), other private childcare institutions and Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs), and the children living in them in Kisumu County, Kenya.

The purpose of the situational analysis is to provide a snapshot of Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs), other private childcare institutions and Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs), and the children living in them in Kiambu County, Kenya.

The purpose of the situational analysis is to provide a snapshot of Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs) (registered and unregistered), and Statutory Children’s Institutions (SCIs), and the children living in them in in Murang’a county, Kenya.

The purpose of this situational analysis is to provide a snapshot of charitable children’s institutions (CCIs), other private childcare institutions and statutory children’s institutions (SCIs) in Kenya, and of the children living in them.

This paper asks the questions: What can we learn from the pandemic—and federal, state, and local governmental responses— about the cracks in the child welfare system? What lessons can be carried forward post-pandemic?

This evaluation study examined a Family Services Centre (FSC) operating in a socio‐culturally deprived suburban area of Southern Italy to explore how to promote innovative practices to meet increasingly complex family needs.

The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of mothers regarding their mothering role after participation in the ‘Mamma Trots Allt’ (MTA) program, a support program for mothers with cognitive limitations who have children in placement.

This study aims to analyse the interaction between children in foster care and their main caregivers during a microcoded co‐construction task, focusing on the verbal and non‐verbal behaviours that the adults use to promote a secure attachment in the child.

This paper examines the discretionary reasoning of the judiciary in three jurisdictions, England, Germany and Norway, in cases deciding whether a newborn child is safe with her parents or intervention is necessary.

This research examines the intersection of cross-cultural practice and child maltreatment investigations.

This article explores child welfare workers’ experiences of children’s participation in decision making in the child protection system.

Our Way outlines a framework for transformational change that will occur over the next 20 years, representing a long-term commitment by government and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to work together to improve the life outcomes of vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

These Principles are designed to inspire and provide guidance on legislative, policy and practical reforms on the upholding of children’s rights born through surrogacy.