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This guidance is the first ever global, practitioner-informed guidance on how to support kinship care. The guidance is aimed at policymakers and programme managers working to improve the care of children.
Children who cannot be looked after by their parents often live with relatives or friends of the family. This care is known as kinship care. Kinship care is acknowledged as the first form of care that should be explored for children outside of parental care. It is widely used across the world. However, it is poorly supported in many countries.
This guidance explains why supporting…
Ukrainian officials have condemned a new decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in early 2024 simplifying the process of conferring Russian citizenship on Ukrainian children abducted from wartime Ukraine.
Issued on January 4, 2024, the citizenship decree is officially designed to ease the process of granting Russian citizenship to foreign nationals and stateless persons. Officials in Kyiv highlighted one particularly contentious section indicating that orphaned Ukrainian children or those deprived of parental…
Police in Bangladesh have launched an investigation into historical allegations that children were adopted abroad without their parents’ consent, after a Guardian investigation into adoptions to the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Bangladesh special branch in Dhaka confirmed it had opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the adoption of a number of children between 1976 and 1979.
Context:
There has been increasing concern about the historic abuse of children in residential and foster care in countries around the world. Inquiries have taken place in a number of countries and measures have been put in place to address the needs of survivors of abuse in care. The focus of such inquiries and responses to historic abuse have varied significantly from country to country (Sköld and Swain, 2015; Wright, Swain and Sköld, 2020). In Scotland, there has – over the years – been a range of policy and practice developments aimed at safeguarding and protecting children in…
More than four decades have passed, but Sayrun Nisa still cries for her son as if she lost him yesterday. In 1977, she had been taking care of her child and sick husband at home when there was a knock at the door. She opened it to find two people who claimed they were from Terres Des Hommes Netherlands (TDHn), an organisation that operated in the Dattapara camp for refugees of the Bangladesh war of independence, where she lived.
“They started telling…
This is the third Global Forum for a World Without Orphans to be held 29 February 29 - 03 March 2024 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
If you are interested in collaborating with others in your country and region to solve the orphaned and vulnerable child crisis in your nation, we really hope you will join us! We also encourage you to send this forum application page to other leaders you recommend for participation in this event.
Once your application has been approved, each attendee will be…
An alarming connection exists between residential care facilities, such as orphanages and children’s homes, and human trafficking. Orphanage trafficking occurs when children from vulnerable families are actively recruited into residential care for profit or other…
Role Purpose:
The international Child Protection (CP) Technical Advisor (TA) ensures technical excellence to drive Child Protection impact for children in need across Ukraine. Within the overarching goal of preventing and addressing violations of children’s rights, the international CP TA leads the thematic portfolio of interventions aimed at preventing and responding to all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children in Ukraine. In a context of active war that dramatically reduces child right’s space and protection, children in Ukraine continue to suffer…
This is the first chapter from the "Working with children who have experienced neglect" Good Practice Guide.
Who is this book for?
The guide is designed to be a practical text for busy social workers and other practitioners in a range of services responsible for safeguarding children. With its easy to digest format and authoritative advice, this guide is a vital companion for all those working for and concerned with children’s welfare.
What you will find in this book
Packed with information, this guide focuses on understanding neglect – its changing nature over time…
Introduction
Children in families affected by substance use disorders are at high risk of being placed in out-of-home care (OOHC). The authors aimed to describe the characteristics of parents who inject drugs and identify correlates associated with child placement in OOHC.
Methods
The authors used baseline data from a community-based cohort of parents who inject drugs (SuperMIX) from Melbourne, Australia. Participants were recruited via convenience, respondent-driven and snowball sampling from April 2008 to November 2020, with follow-up until March 2021. To explore…