‘You've got to trust her and she's got to trust you’: children's views on participation in the child protection system

Jeanette Cossar, Marian Brandon and Peter Jordan - Child and Family Social Work

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the views of 26 children, aged 6–17 years, about their participation in the child protection system in England.

Policy transfer, social pedagogy and children's residential care in England

David Berridge - Child and Family Social Work

 This paper builds on a recent evaluation of the piloting of the continental European model of social pedagogy (SP) in English residential care. It does three things: it considers the theoretical social policy literature on policy transfer and its implications; discusses European residential care for children and the discipline of SP; and reflects on these debates and the situation of children's residential care in England. 

Investing in the relationship: practitioners’ relationships with looked-after children and care leavers in Social Work Practices

Julie Ridley, Cath Larkins, Nicola Farrelly, Shereen Hussein, Helen Austerberry, Jill Manthorpe and Nicky Stanley - Child and Family Social Work

 This paper uses findings from interviews with 169 children and young people across 11 local authorities in England and 5 Social Work Practices (SWPs), undertaken as part of a 3-year national matched control evaluation of pilot SWPs, to identify key elements of good quality practitioner relationships with children or young people.

Internationally adopted children's general and adoption-specific stressors, coping strategies and psychological adjustment

Marta Reinoso, Noemí Pereda, Linda Van den Dries and Carlos G. Forero - Child and Family Social Work

This study examined stress, coping and psychological adjustment of 68 children, aged 8–12, who were internationally adopted to Spain. 

South African Early Childhood Review 2016

Ilifa Labantwana, the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Department for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in the Presidency

This report reviews South Africa’s National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy, which was approved by the Cabinet in December 2015. The policy is aimed at providing a framework for multi-sectoral Early Childhood Development services in South Africa. 

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A Shared Sentence: The devastating toll of parental incarceration on kids, families and communities

Kids Count - Annie E. Casey Foundation

This policy report from Kids Count outlines the impacts that parental incarceration has on children, and on communities as a whole, particularly in the context of mass incarceration in the United States. The report concludes with recommendations for investing in families to mediate the detrimental effects of parental incarceration, which disproportionately affects people of color in the United States.

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Evolving Methods for an Expanding Field: Global Research with Children and Families in Adversity

CPC Learning Network

The CPC Learning Network held its biennial meeting, Evolving Methods for an Expanding Field: Global Research with Children and Families in Adversity, on 21 and 22 June 2016. The meeting aimed at presenting innovative research on international child protection and family welfare and identifying key knowledge gaps and ways to collaborate to fill those gaps.