This paper focuses on the role of ‘soft conditionality’ implemented through both ‘labelling’ and ‘messaging’ in evaluating the impact of the Child Grants Program in Lesotho, an unconditional cash transfer programme targeting poor households with orphans and vulnerable children.
The aim of this qualitative grounded-theory situational study was to explore experiences of social networks among unaccompanied minors (UM) and the significance of those networks for becoming established in Sweden, based on data from in-depth interviews with 11 young persons.
This study focuses on workers’ rationales in placement decisions in child abuse cases in the Netherlands.
For this study, forty men and women from five semi-rural villages in Meru County, Kenya participated in a Rapid Rural Appraisal to explore main and underlying reasons why children may be, or may feel, unwelcome in the home and thus migrate to the street.
This study examined preconception and prenatal predictors of time to first child protective services (CPS) contact among Alaska children.
The study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice investigated whether sibling relationships influenced the outcomes of a sample of adoptive placements in England and Wales that had broken down postorder or were in crisis.
This commentary from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice highlights the authors’ conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families.
The main goals of this study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice were to determine the incidence of preadoption breakdown in Portugal, describe preadoptive parents’ reasons for ending placement, compare intact/disrupted placements, and identify adoption disruption risk and protective factors.
The topic of interest in this paper is the relationship between children who live in kinship care and their birth parents – through childhood and adulthood.
This report, developed by the Australian Centre for Child Protection (ACCP) in consulation with an Expert Panel, provides an analysis and evaluation of a range of child protection practice frameworks in terms of the way they respond to the values and principles and approach to working with children and families applicable to the continuum of child protection practice.
