This guidance from Miracle Foundation outlines case management process and tools aimed at children in Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in India who have been placed with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of these case management processes and tools is to determine feasibility of permanent placement and expedite family-based care in families in which children were placed quickly and without proper preparation during COVID-19 lockdown.

L’obiettivo della presente nota tecnica è di aiutare i professionisti di protezione dell’infanzia e i funzionari governativi nelle loro azioni di risposta immediata ai problemi relativi alla protezione dell’infanzia affrontati dai bambini a rischio di separazione o in affido etero-familiare durante la pandemia di COVID-19.

This UN policy brief presents three urgently recommended actions to minimize the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The current study examined the attachment development of 92 internationally adopted Chinese girls, focusing on the influence of type of pre-adoption care (institutional versus foster care) and sensitive adoptive parenting.

Based on experience working with children, families and communities in emergencies, including epidemics, in this policy brief, World Vision outlines a number of recommendations for Governments, UN Agencies, Donors, NGOS, Private Sector and Faith Leaders to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on children’s health and nutrition, particularly for vulnerable children. 

This article argues that Greece's use of closed-type institutions for child protection is violation of children’s rights and a practice of secondary victimization, stigmatization and exclusion of children living in these institutions.

The current literature review provides a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding child institutional maltreatment.

This study used empirical data from health and social care professionals and cluster analysis to identify “barriers to” and “recommendations for” providing care and support to children living as AIDS orphans in township communities in Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa.

This paper examines the use of Family Group Conferences (FGCs) in engaging with looked after children.

The objective of this study was to assess factors impacting child-welfare involvement and child abuse and neglect outcomes among prenatally substance-exposed infants.