How to Engage Care Leavers in Care Reform

Changing the Way We Care and the Kenya Society of Care Leavers

This guidance was produced with the Kenya Society of Care Leavers to address how to best engage care leavers - who may have suffered personal trauma in their past and may not have an existing safety net to protect them, yet have a very important voice - in care reform.

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The impact of inheritance experiences in orphans and vulnerable children support in Zimbabwe: A caregivers' perspective

John Ringson - Child & Family Social Work

This article is a qualitative phenomenological study seeking to examine the perceptions, views, and feelings of the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and their caregivers on their lived experiences in OVC care and support in Zimbabwe.

Disentangling the effect of out-of-home care on child mental health

Helen Baldwin, Nina Biehal, Linda Cusworth, Jim Wade, Victoria Allgar, Panos Vostanis - Child Abuse & Neglect

This research investigated the association between care placement and the presence of child mental health problems after controlling for children’s pre-care experiences. It also identified factors associated with mental health problems among children in care in the UK.

Spanking and young children’s socioemotional development in low- and middle-income countries

Garrett T. Pace, Shawna J. Lee, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study uses data from 215,885 children in 62 countries from the fourth and fifth rounds of UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) to examine the relationship between spanking and child well-being.

Child abuse in Pakistan: A qualitative study of knowledge, attitudes and practice amongst health professionals

Kayleigh M Maul, Rubaba Naeem, Uzma Rahim Khan, Asad I Mian, Aisha K Yousafzai, Nick Brown - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study aimed to: (1) Explore the challenges that healthcare professionals (HCP) face when managing cases of abuse; (2) Explore cultural beliefs and understand how these shape practice and (3) Identify training needs.

“A child who is hidden has no rights”: Responses to violence against children with disabilities

Janet Njelesani - Child Abuse & Neglect

Guided by social-ecological theory, this study explores responses to violence against children with disabilities, including preventative measures and treatment of victims in the West African countries of Guinea, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Togo.