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UK Department for Education,

This guidance explains the strategy for infection prevention and control, including the specific circumstances PPE should be used, to enable safe working in education, childcare and children’s social care settings in England during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

BBC News,

"An American Christian missionary has pleaded guilty in a US court to sexually abusing young girls at the orphanage he started in Kenya," says this article from BBC News.

UNICEF Thailand,

The Child Protection Section, UNICEF Thailand Country Office (TCO) is seeking an individual consultant to develop the National Action Plan and Roadmap on Alternative Care.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

This live Q&A session will unpack this newly revised technical note, with the aim to support child protection practitioners and policy makers to put children’s safety and well-being at the centre of their COVID-19 pandemic response.

Sara Portnoy & Allison Ward - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry,

This article explores the significant emotional and physical health needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the European Union, recommending a stepwise approach to delivery of services so as not to overwhelm them.

Cindy Blackstock, Muriel Bamblett, Carlina Black - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This paper explores the efficacy of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Convention, UN General Assembly, 1989) through the lens of the over-representation of First Nations children placed in out-of-home care in Canada and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia.

Fred Wulczyn, Arno Parolini, Florie Schmits, Joseph Magruder, Daniel Webster - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study uses longitudinal administrative data from twenty U.S. states to examine the risk of returning to foster care after children are either reunified with their parents or placed with guardians outside the foster care system.

Sara Tiano and Karen de Sá - The Chronicle of Social Change,

The U.S. state of California has "enacted temporary extensions of foster care to ensure young adults aren’t cut off from basic needs benefits, as work, study and much of daily life remains virtually paralyzed," says this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.

Rev Ifeanyi Mbaegbu - All Africa,

"The lockdown measures have increased the risk of children [in Nigeria] becoming victims of domestic violence, bullying and other forms of abuse," says Rev Ifeanyi Mbaegbu in this article.

Kalah M. Villagrana, Elizabeth H. Mody, Siobhan M. Lawler, Qi Wu, Kristin M. Ferguson - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores the factors that are associated with positive educational outcomes for HYA with and without a foster care history.