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Abstract
This qualitative study explored the accounts of 50 residential childcare staff in Saudi Arabia, aiming to identify ways in which staff and residential institutions may function as attachment objects for the children in their care. Rather than conducting a formal attachment assessment, a semi‐structured interview schedule was utilised, intending to generate novel insights into the child–carer relationship. Informed by attachment theory, thematic analysis suggested that keyworkers' narratives were organised around three conceptual dichotomies – social rejection …
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This chapter discusses the popular approaches used in the care of abandoned children and young people born without parents. Per this chapter, residential care is still quite a popular means for caring for children without parents. Children either reside in government run or voluntarily run facilities. Foster care is considered as an alternative approach, as well.
Within Saudi Arabia there are about 20 government-run and 15 voluntary non-profit institutions providing residential care for orphans and abandoned children and young people. This chapter points out that…