Study on alternative care community practices for children in Cambodia (Khmer Language)

Carolyn Hamilton, Kara Apland, Maurice Dunaiski and Elizabeth Yarrow - Coram Children’s Legal Centre

The ‘Study on Alternative Care Community Practices for Children in Cambodia, including Pagoda-based care’ (published in Khmer) is the first of its kind which sheds light on how different forms of alternative care are being used in the community.

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“I haven't read it, I've lived it!” The benefits and challenges of peer research with young people leaving care

Berni Kelly, Seana Friel, Theresa McShane, John Pinkerton, Eithne Gilligan - Qualitative Social Work

This article aims to provide a detailed account and reflection of the involvement of care leavers as peer researchers in the qualitative case study phase of a three-year, mixed method study of the transitions of young people leaving care in Northern Ireland.

Temporary placements: A crisis-management strategy for physically abused children?

Sophie T. Hébert, Sonia Hélie, Tonino Esposito - Child Abuse & Neglect

The objective of the present study is to describe the context in which temporary placements are used by children’s services in Quebec (Canada) while analyzing the associative link between temporary placements and physical abuse as the reason for the placement.

Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK

Paul Bywaters, Jonathan Scourfield, Chantel Jones, Tim Sparks, Martin Elliott, Jade Hooper, Claire McCartan, Marina Shapira, Lisa Bunting, Brigid Daniel - Journal of Social Work

This study reports on a large quantitative, descriptive study focusing on children in contact with children’s services on a single date in 2015 in the four UK countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) to provide a potential ‘natural experiment’ for comparing intervention patterns.