The Foster Care Systems are Failing Foster Children: The Implications and Practical Solutions for Better Outcomes of Youth in Care
This paper reviews the literature on foster care and explains the issues that foster children in Canada experience.
The Experience of Receiving and Delivering Consultation in a Residential Childcare Setting for Looked-after and Accommodated Children
The aim of this study was to explore the experience of consultation in three residential childcare settings in the UK.
A World Without Orphans: A Documentary Dialogue to Engage the Church the Pursuit of a World Without Orphans
This post on the Missions Dilemma website features an article and 30 minute documentary film on the harmful impact of institutionalization on children.
Out of Care, into University: Raising Higher Education Access and Achievement of Care Leavers
This report aims to provide the basis for an agenda to improve university attendance among care leavers in Australia by highlighting the nature and extent of the problem, and suggesting practical solutions within both the education and community service sectors.
Anti-Poverty Strategies for Care Leavers: The Same as Prisoners?
In this article, the author, David Graham, draws comparisons between the experiences and needs of youth transitioning out of care in the UK and those of individuals who are formerly incarcerated reintegrating into society.
Strengthen African Families - The ‘SAFe’ Campaign: A Call for Change
This Call for Change from the ‘SAFe’ Campaign in Uganda provides an overview of the situation of orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda, highlights key concerns related to this situation, and outlines ways forward for strengthening families.
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Exploring Care and Protection Offered to OVCs in Care Institutions with Examples from South Africa and Botswana
This study has, through an immense literature review analysis explored: the role of OVC care institutions; policy environment of care and protection of OVCs; care of OVCs in institutional care in both South Africa and Botswana; and the experiences of OVCs in care institutions.
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Family and Parenting Support: Policy and Provision in a Global Context
This report examines and analyses policies and provision for family support and parenting support based on general literature searches and evidence gathered from 33 UNICEF national offices and detailed case studies of nine countries.
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Child and Family Welfare Policy: Ghana
The Government of Ghana has established a relatively comprehensive legal framework for child protection, guided by the Constitution and the Children’s Act 1998 (Act 560).
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Re-Thinking and Reconceptualizing Child Care Institutionalisation in South Africa: Effects and Impacts on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs)
The present study, through an extensive review of literature has explored and reconceptualised institutional care and considered the dynamics of institutionalization. The study also examines the effects and impacts of institutionalization on OVCs in South Africa, such as educational attainment, socialization and psychosocial impacts.
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