Save the Children

Save the Children is an international NGO that support’s children’s rights around the world, and focuses on protecting children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence.

UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund is a United Nations programme that provides humanitarian and development support to children across the world.

Lumos

Lumos works to support children in institutions worldwide to regain their right to a family life and to end the institutionalisation of children. 

Country Care Review: Ethiopia

Better Care Network

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the sixteenth session (15 Aug 2016 – 2 Sep 2016) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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Systematic reviews on child welfare services: identifying and disseminating the evidence

Hege Kornør, Hanna Bergman, Nicola Maayan, Karla Soares-Weiser, and Arild Bjørndal - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

To facilitate well-informed decisions, the researchers collected and disseminated evidence from systematic reviews (SR) to local child welfare stakeholders in Norway through plain language summaries. This article describes that process.

The Vital Few foster parents: Replication and extension

John G. Orme, Donna J. Cherry - Children and Youth Services Review

This study replicated and extended previous research which identified the small proportion of highly productive foster parents who provide a disproportionate amount of care in the United States. This study used a nationally representative sample of foster families (N = 876) with a focus on willingness to foster, and actually fostering, children with special needs.