Attachment in family foster care: Literature review of associated characteristics
This review provides an overview of the associated characteristics with the quality of attachment between foster carers and foster children.
Improving early childhood development: WHO guideline
This guideline provides direction for strengthening policies and programmes to better address early childhood development.
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Global resource guide on public finance for children in early childhood development
This resource guide aims to support UNICEF country teams, development partners and governments to deliver at-scale and sustainable results for early childhood development (ECD).
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Brain Matters: Putting the First Years First
Through interviews with cutting edge researchers, scientists, economists, families and educators, this film explores the so called “miracle years”, a critical period of our lives that no one remembers, in a profound new way – emphasizing how the first few years are the greatest opportunity we have to give children the best start in life.
Institutionalization of Children with Disabilities in Croatia: Social Workers' Perspectives
This study aims to advance understanding of social workers’ perceptions of the circumstances necessitating and preventing the placement of children with disabilities (CwDs) in institutions.
International adoption of cleft lip and palate children: Attachment, behavior problems, and parental sensitivity
This study examined parent-child relationship variables (child attachment, parental sensitivity, and prior parenting experience) and child behavior problems in parents and their international adopted children with and without a cleft lip and palate.
‘Do I read it? No’. Knowledge utilisation in child welfare decisions.
This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with the objective of exploring the knowledge that social workers use to make decisions regarding permanency arrangements for Looked after Children.
Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: What are the Lessons from Extended Care Programmes in the USA and England for Australia?
This article interrogates formal public evaluations of extended care programmes with a particular focus on their eligibility criteria that have determined which groups of care leavers are included or alternatively excluded and the identified strengths and limitations of the programmes.
Predictors of Special Education Receipt Among Child Welfare-Involved Youth
This quantitative study investigated how selected attributes of children (e.g., gender) and their microsystems (e.g., caregiving settings) related to the receipt of special education among a sample of 1855 child welfare-involved youth from the U.S. National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II.