This paper outlines key findings from the first comprehensive study of permanence planning in Scotland.

This report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health calls for an end to the use of detention and confinement as a tool "to promote public safety, “morals” and public health."

This working paper is based on findings discussed in the project report CURANT: a first evaluation report (Ravn et al., 2018), which focuses on the first impressions and experiences of the young refugees and their local buddies, who entered the project during its first year of implementation.

This comment will argue that unaccompanied alien children have a due process right to appointed counsel at the government’s expense. 

This thesis took on a meta-analytical approach to examine sources of heterogeneity between studies evaluating the effect of foster care on adaptive functioning, cognitive functioning, externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, and total problems behavior.

This research study proposes to explore aggregate of factors responsible for the academic struggles of foster care youth.

This article examines the positive and negative ways in which media affect the processes of out-going adoption from the U. S. and disrupted adoption.

The aim of this paper is to define social and psychological problems faced by children of unknown parentage in foster families in the governorate of Muscat, Oman. 

This guide is intended to equip State, Tribal, and Territorial child welfare managers and administrators — as well as family support organizations — with current information about effective strategies for developing data-driven family support services and research findings to help them make the case for implementing and sustaining these services.

This bulletin draws from available literature and practice knowledge to summarize key issues related to providing effective services to support the stability and permanency of adoptions.