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This paper presents different instruments for the assessment of child abuse in families with parental mental illness.
This research explores how decision-making heuristics are used by practitioners to determine which foster family is the best fit for a child.
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of front‐line practices regarding emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protection.
The purpose of this study is to explore child welfare workers' perspectives on ethnic matching in child welfare service delivery.
The present study describes how two youth care organizations in the Netherlands implemented group climate monitoring instruments for children as part of the broader ‘You Matter!’ project, and aims to answer the question how these monitoring instruments can help to improve group climate when routinely embedded in daily care.
Utilizing case examples, this discussion paper examines foster care decisions that disrupt important child-caregiver relationships.
This paper reviews research on child maltreatment over a recent 10-year span to identify trends in maltreatment assessment and operationalization.
These updated UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Guidelines provide guidance on determining the best interests of the child in decisions affecting children at risk, in particular children who are separated from their parents and families.
The BIP Guidelines combine a conceptual framework of the best interests of the child with field-driven, operational guidance to provide one consolidated, practical frame of reference for staff and partners in the field. This document provides a guide to the 2018 updated Guidelines, including what's new, why they were revised, and what's next.
The purpose of this Foster Care Operational Manual is to provide guidance to Department of Social Welfare (DSW) officers and Foster Care Agencies on the delivery of foster care services in line with the Children’s Amendment Act, 2016 and Foster Care Regulations 2018.