International Volunteering: Trends and Insights
This report - from the Better Volunteering, Better Care Initiative and its members - seeks to understand the trends and motivating factors for volunteerism in care centres for children.
This report - from the Better Volunteering, Better Care Initiative and its members - seeks to understand the trends and motivating factors for volunteerism in care centres for children.
This overview is intended to contribute to discussions on international volunteering in residential care centres as an anecdotal research piece on the situation in Ghana.
This video was produced as part of the “Don’t Create More Orphans” Campaign, developed by Child Safe Network, Friends International, and partners.
This podcast is a presentation given by Kate Van Doore at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking held on October 9-11 2014 at the University of Nebraska.
This qualitative study sought to understand the experiences of parents in England who are separated from their children due to their placement in a secure psychiatric center. The study included participants whose children had been placed into foster or kinship care or family adoption.
This report summarises the findings of original research commissioned by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the UK carried out by the University of Edinburgh/NSPCC Child Protection Research Centre to address a significant gap in current understandings of deaf and disabled children and young people's experiences of the child protection system.
This review of literature covers international material related to stability and permanence for disabled children, in particular permanence achieved through fostering and adoption.
The purpose of the research highlighted in this report was to assess and analyze the extent to which World Vision UK is reaching ‘the most poor and marginalised’ or Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) through its Child Protection programming in Cambodia, Tanzania, and Eastern DRC.
In this comment, published in the Houston Law Review, the author, Destinee Roman describes and assesses the practice of “re-homing” adopted children.
In this brief article, the authors make their case for extending the age limit for young people to receive care in the foster care system, focusing on the UK and the US.