Decisions in the child protection context take place in a complex environment influenced by individual decision-makers, institutional resources and practices, demographic inequalities, and family responses. This report describes some of these factors as reported by practitioners in the child protection context in Aotearoa New Zealand, providing an insight into the experiences and perceptions of front-line practitioners.

The objective of this paper is to examine the situation of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in existing alternative care systems and explore the treatment of OVC in these systems.

Since failed reunification is a detrimental outcome for children, particularly infants and toddlers, the aim of this study was to gain insight into support to families in multiple-problem situations in the Netherlands to help them achieve sustainable good-enough parenting.

This dissertation study aimed to describe and understand adolescent girls’ subjective experiences of life in an after-care facility after transitioning out of institutionalized care in Delhi, India.

This Practitioner Brief presents key learning and recommendations from the Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families (KCHPF) project, an operational research project which supported the reintegration of children living in residential care back into family care in Uganda.

This guide was developed by Homecoming and has been written to help those in the Christian community who are thinking about whether they should volunteer in an orphanage (or residential care institution, children’s village, children’s home or centre).

This report presents the main conclusions from the 2019 Small Voices Big Dreams Technical Manual, which outlines in great detail the perceptions and opinions of children and adolescents from all over the world regarding the multiple dimensions of violence exercised against them.

This program brief provides an overview of, and key findings from, an evaluation of a community-based child protection intervention in post-conflict Uganda by Makerere University.

This study explores the social work role with children in long-term care, focusing on how relationships between children and social workers can support wellbeing.

This article is written as part of the FORUM project (FOR Unaccompanied Minors: transfer of knowledge for professionals to increase foster care), an EU funded project which sought to enhance the capacity of professionals to provide quality foster care for unaccompanied migrant children, primarily through the transfer of knowledge. The article aims to contribute to this transfer of knowledge by bringing together literature which is of relevance to professionals developing or enhancing foster care services for unaccompanied migrant children.