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. 

This study empirically measures the perceptions towards maternal and paternal migration of male and female children who stay behind in Ghana.

Child Frontiers have been commissioned by the Better Care Network to carry out a review of published, on-going and planned research on children's care.  Please complete this short survey by 31^st January 2018 to let us know about any research or evaluations carried out by or funded by your organisation on care. 

The authors conducted a case-control study of 102 children with positive HIV serology out of 956 received and screened at admission at Sainte Claire Nursery (SCN) in Lomé from 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2014 with the aim of to determine the social profile, the weight evolution and the fate of these children admitted in a difficult situation.

Among older youth transitioning from the foster care system, this longitudinal study examined the association of religious and spiritual capital to substance use in the past year at age 19. 

This phenomenological study explored the “lived” experience of OoHC from the perspective of 4 adult care leavers reflecting on their childhood.

This study sought to build on previous work that calls for the need to develop programs to support foster care alumni in higher education and to obtain a better understanding of the characteristics of existing programs and the perceived programmatic and student challenges as reported by program directors and staff, faculty, and researchers. 

This article provides a discussion of the theoretical basis underpinning safety and risk assessment in child protection, and further describes the empirical research process involved in the development of safety and risk assessment tools and training materials for social workers in the South African child protection field. 

This is the first study in Ghana to explore child protection workers and parents’ experiences on participatory practices. 

This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role for social work in child protection in Indonesia.

The objective of this essay is to determine how substitute child care in the Czech Republic has changed in the last ten years.

This is the final report of a mixed method research project aimed to support the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) in better understanding the life journeys of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse within institutions.

This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the UK's Adoption Support Fund undertaken by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

This research collected rare and vital primary data by interviewing practitioners within looked-after children’s, residential, and respite services. The study established that practitioners lacked basic awareness of radicalisation and extremism, the Prevent strategy, and the Channel programme.

In June 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse conducted public hearings in relation to out‑of‑home care (OOHC) and allegations of child sexual abuse occurring in OOHC settings (Case Study 24). In December 2015, the Royal Commission commissioned this national research report.

This paper examines the situation of children in Romania whose parents are going to work abroad, leaving the children without parental care.

This package is a compilation of resources and new evidence for case management and supervision of humanitarian workers in responding to child protection situations.

This study aims to understand the decision-making process of 200 higher education students in domains related to child protection, and those of 200 professionals who are responsible for providing case assessments and recommendations for intervention in the Portuguese child protection system.

For many social workers, participatory practice may seem an unachievable goal, particularly in the field of child protection. This paper discusses a significant programme of change in one London local authority, as part of which the authors undertook 110 observations of practice and provided more than eighty follow-up coaching sessions for workers. 

Record rise in number of care applications has prompted England's most senior family court judge to warn of a looming “crisis”.

This chapter from the book 'A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision-making,' discusses the global trends in the migration of unaccompanied minors in recent years.

During the summer of 2016, in the midst of one of the biggest refugee crises in centuries, the author of this article joined the team from a shelter for unaccompanied refugee minors on Samos, Greece, in an effort to provide young boys seeking asylum in Europe with an opportunity to engage in speaking about the difficulties they have encountered in life. 

Based on empirical studies in 30 districts in six African countries, this paper makes the case that the highly localized models may not be perfect but are probably the best fit for implementing an all-encompassing Social Protection policy in Africa. 

This paper examines the deinstitutionalisation process in Bulgaria.

This paper examines the notion of “unaccompanied and separated children”  of Russia.

This article discusses on-going foster care reform in Russia and analyses possibilities for the evolution of partnerships between stakeholders.