The institutional shaping of children’s educational experiences in secure custody: A case study of a secure children’s home in England

Caroline Andow - International Journal of Educational Development

Through the lens of institutional ethnography, this paper explores how experiences of education inside one Secure Children’s Home in England are shaped by the institution.

Mental health and substance use in urban left-behind children in China: a growing problem

Feng Wang, Leesa Lin, Jingjing Lu, Jingjing Cai, Jiayao Xu, Xudong Zhou - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this study was to examine the mental health status and substance use behaviors of urban left-behind children and urban children still living with their parents in comparison to rural left-behind children.

Child welfare and future assessments – an analysis of discretionary decision-making in newborn removals in Norway

Ida Benedicte Juhasz - Children and Youth Services Review

This study explores a particularly wide discretionary space set for decision-making within the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy; care order decisions concerning newborns directly removed from the hospital by the child protection system.

Substantiation of child maltreatment among parents with disabilities in the United States

Elizabeth Lightfoot, Mingyang Zheng & Sharyn DeZelar - Journal of Public Child Welfare

This article describes the first United States-based national study to compare the rates of substantiation of maltreatment among cases reported to child protective services involving caregivers with and without disabilities.

Why parenting matters for children in the 21st century: An evidence-based framework for understanding parenting and its impact on child development

Hannah Ulferts - OECD

This paper provides a structured overview of the existing parenting literature with the aim of developing an evidence-based and culture-sensitive framework of parenting and its influence on child development.

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Understanding out of home care rates in Northern Ireland: a thematic analysis of mixed methods case studies

Will Mason, Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Lisa Bunting, Gavin Davidson, Claire Mccartan, Paul Bywaters, Calum Webb - British Journal of Social Work

Drawing on the narratives offered by child and family social workers, this paper considers a series of possible explanations for Northern Ireland (NI)'s significantly lower out of home care rates.

Basic education assistance module as a material and psychosocial support intervention for orphans and vulnerable children in Gutu District, Zimbabwe. An evaluation

John Ringson - New Ideas in Psychology

This article is a qualitative phenomenological study seeking to examine the perceptions, views and feelings of the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), care-givers and community leaders on their experiences with Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) as a material and psychosocial support intervention in Zimbabwe.

Moving from procedure to practice: a statewide child protection simulation training model

Betsy P. Goulet,Theodore P. Cross,Yu-Ling Chiu & Susan Evans - Journal of Public Child Welfare

This paper chronicles the goals of the partnership and the planning and implementation of the Child Protection Training Academy, developed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the University of Illinois Springfield in the U.S.

A qualitative study of experiences during placement and long-term impact of institutional care: Data from an adult Greek sample

Paraskevi Tatsiopoulou, Christina Chatzidimitriou, Eugenie Georgaca, Grigori Abatzoglou - Children and Youth Services Review

The aim of the present study was to provide understanding into the past and present experiences of individuals who had resided in a child-care institution during their childhood and/or adolescence and to contribute to the study of the long-term impact of institutional care on adult life.