“They’re not bad parents. They’ve just made bad choices.”: Mental health clinicians’ perspectives of parents involved with child protective services

Hana Yoo, Stefana Racorean, Victoria Barrows - Qualitative Social Work

The current study seeks to address the lack of literature including voices of mental health clinicians regarding their work and clients in the child welfare system by exploring clinicians’ views on the issue of child maltreatment and CPS-involved parents’ parenting.

Recurrent involvement with the Quebec child protection system for reasons of neglect: A longitudinal clinical population study

Tonino Esposito, Martin Chabot, Nico Trocmé, John D. Fluke, Ashleigh Delaye, et al - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study, the largest of its kind in Canada, examines when and for whom recurring conditions of neglect were most likely to occur for all children involved with child protection in the province of Quebec over a span of fifteen years.

Care leavers, ambiguous loss and early parenting: explaining high rates of pregnancy and parenting amongst young people transitioning from out-of-home care

Jade Purtell, Philip Mendes and Bernadette J. Saunders - Children Australia

This paper is a narrative review examining the high prevalence of care leaver early parenting in the context of (i) key transitions from care studies taken from the last few decades, (ii) a structured review using Scopus of studies from 2015–2020 focussed specifically on young people transitioning from care and early parenting and (iii) Boss’s (2010) Ambiguous Loss theory.

Family assistant in meanders of foster care – the perspective of working with the biological family of a child placed in foster care environment

Zmysłowska, Magdalena - Praca Socjalna

This article deals with the issues of family assistance from the perspective of working with the biological family of a child placed in foster care.

From Foster Youth to Foster Scholar: Suggestions for Emancipatory Research Practices

Angela E. Hoffman-Cooper - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper discusses how research related to youth with experience in foster care can be conducted in an emancipatory manner with researchers actively supporting the liberation of youth with experience in foster care through their scholarly contributions.

Bahasa Indonesia Translation - Disability rights during the pandemic: A global report on findings of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor

Disability Rights Monitor

This report (translated into Bahasa Indonesia) has one central purpose: To raise the alarm globally as to the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on persons with disabilities worldwide, including children with disabilities, and to catalyse urgent action in the weeks and months to come.

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