This booklet from Udayan Care provides guidance on how to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of children in child care institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This booklet from Udayan Care provides guidance on how to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of children in child care institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This supplementary issue relates to a sequence of activities the British Academy has supported since 2015 in relation to the bringing together of a range of disciplinary perspectives on early childhood development.

This paper outlines key messages for leaving care workers for planning services not only to keep children and young people safe and supported but to make their lives as positive as possible at this time.

This study examined differences in childhood adversity, child protection involvement, and offending among crossover children by neurodisability status.

The authors of this study draw on the decision-making ecology model of judgement and decision making in child protection to speculate on possible causes of false positive errors in decision making regarding the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.

The purpose of this article is to perform a critical analysis of the procedure for determining the age of unaccompanied foreign minors in Spain and the detrimental effects that may arise from establishing the legal status of these minors.

The present study aimed to evaluate the specific impact of different forms of victimization on alcohol and cannabis use problems among adolescents in Residential Child Care (RCC) in Spain, attending to sex differences.

This page from the Consortium for Street Children website explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting street-connected children and features documents from the Consortium, including explanatory notes on COVID-19 and street-connected children’s rights, and other resources.

El Diálogo Interamericano y UNICEF han conformado una alianza orientada a fortalecer la construcción y la implementación de políticas integrales de la primera infancia basada en evidencia, en los países de la región. En esa línea, se convocó un Taller regional en Uruguay. Este documento presenta los principales elementos destacados y discutidos en la reunión y los aspectos en los cuales hay un mayor acuerdo entre los expertos participantes del taller.

This call to action outlines several decisive and coordinated measures that all stakeholders are urged to take to ensure that children and families are protected from the immediate and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.

This guidance is for Save the Children staff and partners already running Interim Care Centres (ICCs) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This review provides an overview of the associated characteristics with the quality of attachment between foster carers and foster children.

This guideline provides direction for strengthening policies and programmes to better address early childhood development.

This resource guide aims to support UNICEF country teams, development partners and governments to deliver at-scale and sustainable results for early childhood development (ECD).

Through interviews with cutting edge researchers, scientists, economists, families and educators, this film explores the so called “miracle years”, a critical period of our lives that no one remembers, in a profound new way – emphasizing how the first few years are the greatest opportunity we have to give children the best start in life.

This study aims to advance understanding of social workers’ perceptions of the circumstances necessitating and preventing the placement of children with disabilities (CwDs) in institutions.

This study examined parent-child relationship variables (child attachment, parental sensitivity, and prior parenting experience) and child behavior problems in parents and their international adopted children with and without a cleft lip and palate.

This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with the objective of exploring the knowledge that social workers use to make decisions regarding permanency arrangements for Looked after Children.

This article interrogates formal public evaluations of extended care programmes with a particular focus on their eligibility criteria that have determined which groups of care leavers are included or alternatively excluded and the identified strengths and limitations of the programmes.

This quantitative study investigated how selected attributes of children (e.g., gender) and their microsystems (e.g., caregiving settings) related to the receipt of special education among a sample of 1855 child welfare-involved youth from the U.S. National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II.

In this video, One Sky Foundation share some of their work in Thailand supporting children from disadvantaged families to stay in education.

This animated video from Alternative Care Thailand tells the story of a boy in Thailand who is sent to live in an orphanage because his mother feels she is unable to care for him at home, his experiences with volunteers once he arrives at the orphanage, and how the orphanage transitioned to supporting children to live in families.

This preliminary technical note from UNICEF, ILO, and UN Women offers (interim) recommendations for employers to mitigate the negative consequences stemming from COVID-19.

This guidance note is intended to support child guidance for remote child protection case management, including the key child protection principles of survival and development, non-discrimination and inclusion, child participation, and the best interest of the child.

This document outlines some of the potential risks children face in Interim Care Centres and suggests how to manage them to ensure that children are as safe as possible.

In this first episode of a new special series on child development and COVID-19, Center Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff and host Sally Pfitzer discuss how to support healthy child development during a pandemic, including the importance of caring for caregivers.

In this correspondence in the Lancet, the authors express their concerns regarding children in residential institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and urge authorities to undertake carefully planned measures with respect to deinstitutionalisation.

This Guideline aims to further provide technical guidance to child protection workers in Cambodia to better respond to the child protection risks during a COVID-19 pandemic through case management, including psychosocial support.

This internal case management guidance aims to provide initial support to child protection staff and partners to adapt their case management programming within the contagious environment of COVID-19.

A coalition of six disability rights organisations has launched a major international monitoring initiative entitled “COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor” to conduct rapid independent monitoring of state measures concerning persons with disabilities. 

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the impact of parental migration on the welfare of left-behind children in the Philippines so that policies can be devised to support them.

This article describes the empirical results of perspectives and experiences of 11 parents’ engagement in child protection assessment practice through in-depth semi-structured interviews in one county in North Estonia.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychosocial problems of orphan children in public primary schools in Ethiopia.

This foundational chapter attempts to provide readers with content to assist in their understanding of the characteristics, role, and experiences of kinship elderly caregivers of children affected and/or infected by HIV and AIDS.

This paper examines the efficacy of extended family system in OVC care and support in the Gutu District of Zimbabwe.

This study assesses whether sex of the caregiver is associated with HIV status of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) as a valuable strategy for enhanced pediatric case findings.

This chapter focuses on the U.S. as the nation with the largest number of adoptions. Although adoptions represent a small portion of family growth, from a demographer’s point of view they are worth investigating.

The research objective is to understand the development of collaboration in relation to the multiple issues that influence the educational attainment of youth in out-of-home care.

The authors of this article contend that the government of Zimbabwe adopted traditional practices of child welfare in its National Orphan Care Policy, yet it did not also bring the apparatus (Ubuntu) which made the traditional practices successful in traditional society.

To ensure that the well-being of the most vulnerable children are not compromised, Joining Forces Bangladesh appeals to the Government of Bangladesh, international communities, business sector, and media and civil society to take the measures outlined in this joint appeal. 

This study addressed three research questions: (1) What are ACE totals in this sample of foster parents and how do they compare with the original CDC-Kaiser study? (2) Does foster parents’ ACE exposure relate to foster child behavior? (3) Is the relation between foster parents’ ACEs and children’s challenging behaviors different based on the specific ACE?

This paper reports findings from an innovative arts-based intervention with Looked After Children and young people and concludes that holding competing value sets in creative tension is central to the success of the programme in helping young people to cope with and contest social harm.

This study aims at identifying characteristics of foster children, foster parents and foster placements associated with low satisfaction and high support needs.

This paper explores the experiences of Victorian foster and kinship carers accessing timely health assessment and ongoing healthcare for a child placed in their care; identifying barriers and enablers.

This qualitative study utilized the experiential voices of current and former youth in foster care, caregivers, and agency staff to broaden the understanding of the needs of youth with foster care histories, as well as provide a contextual lens for exploring potential risk factors leading to homelessness.

This article outlines six key recommendations for swift global action and describes UNICEF's commitments to work with communities, governments and partners to slow the spread of COVID-19 and minimize the social and economic impacts on children and their families. 

Based on the life history theory and the interpersonal function model of non-suicidal injury (NSSI), this study aimed to examine the positive impact of loneliness on friendship quality via NSSI among left-behind adolescents.

This study investigated if changes in quality of life (QoL), psychopathological symptoms and perceived self-efficacy predict aggressive behavior trajectories in youths with clinical aggression levels living in closed youth residential care in Germany.