Ann Skelton - South African Journal of Psychology13 Aug 2018
In this editorial in the South African Journal of Psychology, Ann Skelton (a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Pretoria) writes about the recent family separation policy enacted at the US border with Mexico in which children of all ages arriving to the country with their parents or other family members were separated and placed into detention facilities.
Global Campaign to End Child Immigration Detention13 Aug 2018
Launching on International Youth Day, 12 August 2018, the Global NextGen Index uses annual scorecards to evaluate 22 states on their progress to implement alternatives to child immigration detention.
Tom Matthews, Victoria Holt, Senem Sahin, Amelia Taylor, David Griksaitis - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry11 Aug 2018
This research investigated the prevalence of looked-after and adopted young people within a case file review of 185 young people referred to a UK gender identity development service over a 2-year period (1 April 2009 to 1 April 2011).
This chapter identifies and examines the field of power inherent in the child protection system which works to constrain and enable children’s participation in child protection interventions.
Mónica López López, Helen Bouma, Erik J. Knorth, Hans Grietens - National Systems of Child Protection7 Aug 2018
This chapter draws on the policy analysis developed for the research project Hestia, which compares policies and responses to child abuse and neglect in England, Germany and the Netherlands.