Russian child welfare reform and institutional change

Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen, Anna Tarasenko, Anna Pivovarova - Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space

The authors of this chapter from Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space introduce the ongoing child welfare reforms in Russia and consider the international and national context, as well as the main drivers of these reforms and their current results.

Transforming Children's Care Webinar #3: International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform

In this webinar, members of the International Parent Advocacy Network discussed parent advocacy and presented the literature review International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare: Strengthening Children's Care and Protection Through Parent Participation. The webinar included presentations from parent advocates who shared examples of parent advocacy in their contexts.

Reflections from the forgotten frontline: ‘The reality for children and staff in residential care’ during COVID‐19

Sarah Parry, Tracey Williams, Jeremy Oldfield - Health and Social Care in the Community

The authors of this study sought to understand how experiences within the workforce could improve overall working conditions, and thus outcomes for staff and children.

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Protecting children from maltreatment during COVID-19: Second Volume

Carmit Katz and Barbara Fallon - Child Abuse & Neglect

This second volume of the special issue “Protecting children from maltreatment during COVID-19" is a continuation of the first and comprises studies intended to address two core questions: (1) how does COVID-19 impact the rates of child maltreatment (CM); and (2) how does COVID-19 impact the delivery of child protective service responses.

‘It's good because my sister is young, and she knows what's going on’: Children's views about their young kinship carers

Meredith Kiraly and Margaret Kertesz - Child & Family Social Work

An Australian research project explored the experience and support needs of young kinship carers and children in their care through analysis of census data and in‐depth interviews with young kinship carers and children/young people. This article describes the views of 16 young people.

Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment in South Australia, 1986–2017: a retrospective cohort study

Jason M Armfield, Emmanuel S Gnanamanickam, David W Johnston, David B Preen, Derek S Brown, Ha Nguyen, Leonie Segal - The Lancet Public Health

In this study, the authors aimed to examine factors associated with intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment and quantify its extent in a population sample over a 30-year period in South Australia.

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