With an estimated 37-42 million children on the move globally, this publication underscores the urgent need to place children’s rights at the center of migration governance. Drawing on promising practices from countries including Thailand, Jordan, Mexico and Uganda, the report highlights practical, rights-based solutions that address children’s specific vulnerabilities while promoting their protection, development and inclusion.
This introductory prevention learning package has been developed by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and was updated in 2026. The package is designed to strengthen participants’ overall understanding of primary prevention in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.
This document includes statistics on looked after children for Scotland for 2024-25. It covers data on children who are looked after, young people in continuing care, and young people eligible for aftercare services.
This webinar presented by the Urban Institute and sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation explored approaches to strengthening evaluation in child welfare services in the United States to more rapidly and practically document what works.
This study explores how kinship carers in Australia define success in statutory kinship care, emphasizing everyday experiences, emotional bonds, and a child-in-context perspective rather than traditional child protection metrics. It concludes that success is best understood through strong family relationships and belonging, calling for more family-centered support systems that prioritize carers’ and children’s lived experiences.
Family-oriented policies can accelerate social progress with family and child benefit policies stabilizing households when most vulnerable. This year's observance of the International Day of Families commemoration at the UN aims to demonstrate that engagement at international level is essential to elevate early family investment as a core social development priority.
Families, inequality, and child well-being are deeply connected. This report, commissioned by UN DESA for the International Day of Families, examines how global and regional patterns of inequality shape family formation, early childhood and child outcomes in the context of the 2030 Agenda. It analyses trends in income inequality, poverty, fertility, under-five mortality, education and broader family well-being, showing how disadvantage can be transmitted across generations when families are not adequately supported.
After working on infectious disease epidemics with the WHO, Dr. Slutkin developed the idea that violence spreads like a contagious disease and can therefore be prevented using similar interruption strategies. In this book he demonstrates that this public health approach can reduce many forms of violence, from community and domestic violence to broader conflict and even potential war.
The book provides a framework for structuring the improvement process and teaches users how to craft actionable questions about system outcomes. Chapters demonstrate analytic methods for answering those questions, grounded in foundational principles of longitudinal research.
This AP article describes how Nigerian troops rescued seven children and two women who had been kidnapped during an attack on an orphanage in Kogi State in April 2026.
