This report provides a brief analysis of social sector spending in Zambia.

The purpose of this assessment is (a) to review existing case management systems within and in relation to the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) in Zambia and (b) make recommendations on how case management can be enhanced to ensure more efficient and effective service delivery to vulnerable children and adolescents. 

This report details the end of programme evaluation Government of the Republic of Zambia-United Nations Joint Programme on Social Protection as a way of understanding and assessing its operational context and the effect the technical assistance had on the implementation of National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) during the programme’s lifetime.

Cracks in the System is a new report from Lumos that is the first of its kind to systematically explore the links between institutional care and child trafficking in Europe.

In partnership with the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, the upEND movement works to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.

This report from Child's i Foundation provides an overview of the organisation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda.

The current study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to guide the analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight young people with a range of care experiences, looking at the topic of confiding in others.

In this article, two case studies chart show that if foster carers are able to reflect upon the painful and unwanted feelings evoked in them, and acknowledge and take responsibility for what has become enacted in the placement, there may be an opportunity for harmful dynamics to be processed and repaired.

This paper explores within group differences for Mexican and Puerto Rican mothers vulnerable to child welfare involvement.

This study aimed to systematically review motivational interviewing (MI) with child welfare (CW) families as well as MI training with CW workers and social work students training to become CW workers.