Interim Technical Note: Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) During COVID-19 Response
This technical note calls for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) to be integrated into the response to COVID-19.
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Care experienced young people: Agency and empowerment
This paper utilises data generated through an ‘empowerment group’ for care‐experienced young people; it illustrates how an ecological understanding of agency, as a heuristic, might further understanding of the lives of care‐experienced young people.
‘We are the same as everyone else just with a different and unique backstory’: Identity, belonging and ‘othering’ within education for young people who are ‘looked after’
This paper develops understandings of how being publicly identified and consequently labelled as ‘looked after’ can have damaging consequences for young people, particularly in how they are perceived by their peers in the context of schooling.
Bringing men in from the margins: Father‐inclusive practices for the delivery of parenting interventions
In this article, the authors draw on case study data from the Australian Baby Makes 3 (BM3) programme to explore factors that promote father engagement in parenting support programmes.
Setting the stage for family reunification
In this study, the authors analysed data from 27 interviews with parents whose children were removed by child welfare and four focus groups totalling 18 staff from a parent education service provider.
Service providers' perceptions of families caring for children with disabilities in resource‐poor settings in South Africa
Through the lens of a care framework, the present study aims to explore service providers' perceptions of families caring for CWD in resource‐poor settings in South Africa.
“Fostering” Effective Foster Parent Training Programs: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Adaptations for the Child Welfare Setting
Preliminary findings from studies using abbreviated formats of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) suggest effectiveness of such adaptations in reducing externalizing behavior in foster children and maintaining behavioral improvements several months after the end of the treatment.
Are the voices of young people living in out-of-home care represented in research examining their health?: A systematic review of the literature
This systematic review aimed to explore if and how the voices of young people in out-of-home care (OoHC) are represented in research examining their health.
Re-Imagining Child and Youth Care Practice with African Canadian Youth
This article explores how we can re-imagine child and youth care practice with African Canadian youth.
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Child Protection Hypothetical Case Studies for a Virtual Archive: Professional Perspectives Versus the Lived Experience and Expertise of Care Leavers in Victoria, Australia
This article, an auto-ethnographic collaboration between a social work professional and two care leavers, aims to address the problems with records compiled by care workers, social workers and other relevant personnel by constructing a ‘virtual archive’ consisting of several hypothetical records compiled in the style typically employed by caseworkers, which are then critiqued by the care leavers.