Setting the stage for family reunification
In this study, the authors analysed data from 27 interviews with parents whose children were removed by child welfare and four focus groups totalling 18 staff from a parent education service provider.
In this study, the authors analysed data from 27 interviews with parents whose children were removed by child welfare and four focus groups totalling 18 staff from a parent education service provider.
The aim of this study is to investigate out-of-home placement rates and child outcomes of home-visiting interventions.
This study explores the relationship between a key early intervention policy in England designed to support families with children up to the age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care.
Current international research on the experience of care leavers in New Zealand is reviewed to identify key lessons and continuing challenges.
This study examined the relation between neighborhood disorder and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems among children in kinship care and tested caregivers’ social support as a potential mediator.
This study examined the association between parental migration and early childhood nutrition of left-behind children (LBC) in rural China.
This report describes key trends in migrations in the Balkans region, detailing information about the number of people on the move, demography (age, sex, country of origin, etc), behavioral patterns, and routes in use - with a focus on children, particularly unaccompanied children.
This guidance note presents some tips for UNICEF country offices and partners on key considerations when planning to engage with children and adults with disabilities for COVID-19 response.
UNICEF has produced a guidance note on considerations for children and adults with disabilities in the COVID-19 response.
Esta página de World Vision presenta puntos claves para tener en cuenta a la niñez en las acciones Gubernamentales en América Latina y Caribe en tiempos de COVID 19.
El segundo webinar organizado por RELAF en el contexto de la pandemia causada por el COVID-19 tuvo como objetivo proveer herramientas sobre el apoyo y contención; los contactos con sus familias y amigos; el manejo de la información; las estrategias terapéuticas tanto para niños y niñas en residencias, como en familias de acogida y en procesos de vinculación pre adoptiva.
En el Conversatorio se trabajó sobre la preparación y acompañamiento de los niños y niñas en hogares de acogida y familias de acogida, los contactos con sus familias y amigos, manejo de la información, entre otros temas.
Plan International Australia lanzó una guía que ayuda a madres, padres y tutores a orientar algunas de las difíciles conversaciones y situaciones que pueden surgir con niñas y niños durante esta abrumadora pandemia.
Save the Children ha creado cinco breves guías temáticas para padres y madres, en el marco del proyecto ‘A tu lado’.
This checklist presents 40 questions to guide a rights-respecting response to the COVID-19 crisis that addresses the needs of groups most at risk, including people living in poverty, ethnic and religious minorities, women, people with disabilities, older people, LGBT people, migrants, refugees, and children.
In this Guiding Note, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) expresses its grave concern on the ongoing global outbreak of COVID-19 virus and strongly recommends Members States of the African Union integrate child protection measures in their responses to the global pandemic of COVID-19.
This technical note calls for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) to be integrated into the response to COVID-19.
This paper utilises data generated through an ‘empowerment group’ for care‐experienced young people; it illustrates how an ecological understanding of agency, as a heuristic, might further understanding of the lives of care‐experienced young people.
This paper develops understandings of how being publicly identified and consequently labelled as ‘looked after’ can have damaging consequences for young people, particularly in how they are perceived by their peers in the context of schooling.
In this article, the authors draw on case study data from the Australian Baby Makes 3 (BM3) programme to explore factors that promote father engagement in parenting support programmes.
In this study, the authors analysed data from 27 interviews with parents whose children were removed by child welfare and four focus groups totalling 18 staff from a parent education service provider.
Through the lens of a care framework, the present study aims to explore service providers' perceptions of families caring for CWD in resource‐poor settings in South Africa.
Preliminary findings from studies using abbreviated formats of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) suggest effectiveness of such adaptations in reducing externalizing behavior in foster children and maintaining behavioral improvements several months after the end of the treatment.
This systematic review aimed to explore if and how the voices of young people in out-of-home care (OoHC) are represented in research examining their health.
This article explores how we can re-imagine child and youth care practice with African Canadian youth.
This article, an auto-ethnographic collaboration between a social work professional and two care leavers, aims to address the problems with records compiled by care workers, social workers and other relevant personnel by constructing a ‘virtual archive’ consisting of several hypothetical records compiled in the style typically employed by caseworkers, which are then critiqued by the care leavers.
The U.S. Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is working to create resources designed to give a voice to children, youth, and families at most risk during the COVID-19 crisis. This clearinghouse is a collection of all of their resources to date.
This document provides programme guidance across numerous migrants and displaced (M&D) children contexts.
This guide aims to help parents and families of children who are looked after in the care system. The guide also provides information for families whose children have been adopted.
This is a summary of the key points from the many resources on cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and COVID.
This tipsheet serves as guidance to help field teams think through different ways to mitigate the spread and impact of COVID-19 through ongoing cash and voucher assistance (CVA), inform the adaption of CVA programming in the context of COVID-19, and promote sensitivity to changing market dynamics and prices.
This webinar provides an overview of the issue of nurturing care during the COVID-19 pandemic, with lessons learned from past emergency contexts, current data on the prevalence of violence against children, presentation of guides and strategies to promote the protection of children and country presentations on strategies being currently implemented.
This article lists 10 issues that should be addressed in the effort to provide emergency child care for at least part of the workforce, promoting the safety and healthy development of young children while supporting those working in emergency settings.
The Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) has developed a series of messages calling on governments to take actions to protect children in their COVID-19 responses.
The undersigned organizations of this Call to Action jointly call on the governments of European Union (EU) Member States to immediately commit to the emergency relocation of unaccompanied children from the Greek islands to other European countries, giving precedence to existing family links and the best interests of the child.
The Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) partners have co-developed and launched a Call For Coordinated Action urging all governments, global partnerships, multi- and bi-lateral agencies, political bodies, funders, international non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, the business sector, academia, civil society organizations, networks, and advocates to prioritize and invest in the needs of ALL young children and their parents and caregivers, especially the most vulnerable, during the COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery.
This article argues that child protection agencies must provide mandatory training about the Aboriginal experience within the welfare state and the resultant trauma that exists in Australian Indigenous communities.
This paper presents a participatory research study that explored the experiences of a group of Aboriginal Australian parents who have had their children removed by child protection authorities in one Australian state, New South Wales.
In this interview, Andy Bilson - Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire, Associate Director of The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, and researcher promoting children’s rights and reform of child protection systems - discusses the trends in children's care and protection in the UK and globally over the past few decades.
The goal of the current article is to present this workshop framework and share the free Facilitator’s Toolkit.
In the current article, the cognitive, emotional, mental health, and behavioural benefits of deinstitutionalisation for children with varied disabilities in India and UK are discussed.
This study assesses the present situation of the deinstitutionalisation and alternative care arrangements in exile settlements concerning various cultural and socio-structural factors.
This comparative analysis will illuminate how injustices continue to be reproduced, focusing on the child welfare system, as part of the devastating effects that colonization has on Aboriginal peoples, but also as evidence of colonization being reproduced through current discriminatory legislation and practices.
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 article reflects different programmes and resource components that may be promoted to keep children with either their own family or within alternative family care, satisfying the rights of their overall development.
The authors of this study investigated whether migration background and the gender of the parent who maltreated the child seem associated with the decision whether a case was opened for continuing services.
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness and feasibility of a brief trans diagnostic Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) group intervention for youth with comorbid problems in residential care.
This report surveys different aspects of health of unaccompanied minors who have arrived in the Nordic region.
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between primary caregiver cognitive impairment (CCI) and child protection system (CPS) investigation outcomes using the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2008).
The current exploratory study is the first to look at the challenges and barriers in this transitional life stage of 23 Israeli Arab young adults, from their own perspectives, after leaving residential care.