Negotiating Care Between Parents and State Officials

Jennifer Rasell - Care of the State

This chapter of Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary ​​​​​​​explores negotiations between parents and state officials about the care of their children, showing that gendered norms of parenting and ‘appropriate’ family units were implicit parts of child protection policies in state socialist Hungary.

Not a Fading Problem: Child Protection from the 1950s to the 1980s

Jennifer Rasell - Care of the State

This chapter from Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary looks at child protection in Hungary from the 1950s to the 1980s, arguing that the organisational structures of state welfare bolstered parent-child ties yet restricted sibling relations.

Child Protection Mentoring Guide

Save the Children Australia

This guide aims to build Save the Children staff capacity through the provision of mentoring to Save the Children staff, funded partner organisations, staff and volunteers, including field coordinators, child and youth group leaders, community mentors and facilitators.

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A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Fam i lies Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect

This manual - the first in a series - provides an overview of the problem of child abuse and neglect and the prevention and intervention processes.

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Guidance for Alternative Care Provision During COVID-19

Better Care Network, Save the Children, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, UNICEF, and the Inter-agency Task Force

This document provides practical guidance to actors in humanitarian and development contexts on the adaptations and considerations needed to support children who are either currently in alternative care or are going into an alternative care placement during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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