Child Protection System Strengthening: Mapping and Assessment Report - Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, USAID, UNICEF

The main objective of the mapping and assessment is to identify the major gaps in the current child protection system in each state, which will provide the basis for specific suggestions on how to improve the existing child protection system at the state and LGA level. 

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Challenges Faced by Young Mothers with a Care History and Views of Stakeholders About the Potential for Group Family Nurse Partnership to Support Their Needs

Jessica Datta, Geraldine Macdonald, Jane Barlow, Jacqueline Barnes, Diana Elbourne - Children & Society

This qualitative study, embedded in a randomised trial of the Group Family Nurse Partnership (gFNP) program, was designed to explore the challenges faced by women with experience in the care system during pregnancy and early parenthood and to assess the potential of gFNP to meet their needs through the perspectives of a range of informants.

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Creating Compassionate Foster Care: Lessons of Hope from Children and Families in Crisis

Janet C. Mann and Dr. Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks - Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This book draws on over 20 years of work in foster care, along with current attachment research and theory, to question traditional foster care models, make recommendations for improved models of care and interventions, and aid social workers and care professionals to better understand families in crisis and inform their practice.  

The Way Forward to Strengthened Policies and Practices for Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Europe

International Rescue Committee, UNHCR, UNICEF

This paper, based on findings from a consultative process with a variety of actors, captures a multitude of concrete recommendations for more efficient and harmonized policies and practices, taking into account the best interests of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) in Europe. 

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Too Hard? Highly Vulnerable Teens in Tasmania

Catherine Robinson - Anglicare Tasmania

This report presents the findings of an investigation on a cohort of highly vulnerable teens (aged 10-17 years) whose needs for care have fallen outside families, between government agencies and between non-government services. The report identifies the gaps in care received by this cohort and offers key recommendations for how these gaps might be filled. 

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