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Prospects for Children in 2024: Cooperation in a Fragmented World is the latest edition of the Global Outlook, a series of reports produced each year by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, which look to the key trends affecting children and young people over the following 12 months and beyond.
For 2024, the Global Outlook addresses cooperation in a fragmented world and examines the ways in which embracing cooperation in the face of growing global fragmentation will help protect the rights, lives and futures of children.
This Global Outlook shows how…
This guidance explains why supporting kinship care is so important and provides principles of good practice and lessons learnt from across the world.
The guidance is aimed at policymakers and programme managers working to improve the care of children. It was developed from a review of the literature, 28 key informant interviews, online and face-to face workshops with policymakers and practitioners in multiple countries, and consultations with 215 kinship carers and 196 children across seven countries.
This is a summary of a more detailed version of the guidance, which also includes…
This guidance is the first ever global, practitioner-informed guidance on how to support kinship care. The guidance is aimed at policymakers and programme managers working to improve the care of children.
Children who cannot be looked after by their parents often live with relatives or friends of the family. This care is known as kinship care. Kinship care is acknowledged as the first form of care that should be explored for children outside of parental care. It is widely used across the world. However, it is poorly supported in many countries.
This guidance explains why supporting…
This is the first chapter from the "Working with children who have experienced neglect" Good Practice Guide.
Who is this book for?
The guide is designed to be a practical text for busy social workers and other practitioners in a range of services responsible for safeguarding children. With its easy to digest format and authoritative advice, this guide is a vital companion for all those working for and concerned with children’s welfare.
What you will find in this book
Packed with information, this guide focuses on understanding neglect – its changing nature over time…
See an in-depth analysis of the situation of children in alternative care and in adoption in Europe and Central Asia; several peer-reviewed articles on transitioning from care; the first ever global, practitioner-informed guidance on how to support kinship care; an in-depth scoping review on different types of transitional support interventions available to support transition to independent living for care leavers and much more.
Care leavers, young people who are or have left a formal care placement, are one of the most important stakeholder groups in a care reform process; a group whose experience, expertise and insights should be at the center of shaping the reform and advocacy agenda nationally, regionally and globally. Whilst the importance of engaging care leavers and ensuring meaningful participation is recognized within the sector, in practice, methods of engagement vary.
Efforts can fail to legitimately empower and enable meaningful participation or limit to inviting care leavers to illuminate existing…
The ‘Supporting Integration’ toolkit documents and shares good practice guidance for practitioners working with child migrants. The toolkit was developed as part of a three year project which involved research into the integration of children moving from the Middle East to Europe, and aims to enhance integration support and services, ensuring that children and young people are provided with a care that fosters their development and well-being.
The toolkit is built around a model of integration which contains the six dimensions that should be considered when supporting a child or…
CTWWC was conceived as a design-build initiative, firmly set within a collaborate, learn, adapt (CLA) framework. The initiative understands that care reform is a long and complex process, requiring collaboration between many diverse actors, and that change pathways would likely differ between contexts. CTWWC is anchored in a belief that by capturing the process of change and learning from different countries, the global knowledge base around care reform globally would be built, and therefore be able to inform and reinforce the global momentum for family care. CLA is at the heart of CTWWC’s…
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Attachment is among the core theories for social work with children and families. Yet there remain considerable debates about what practitioners need to know about attachment, in part because outdated ideas about attachment still hold considerable power. This webinar draws on a consultation with the international attachment research community to propose an updating of the curriculum, incorporating the key consensus findings of contemporary research. This includes the implications for a child's development of their various attachment relationships, and the impact of poverty and…
This free to attend webinar for our foster carer and fostering service members focuses on verbal abuse by adults and its traumatic effect on our young people. It will then aim to provide attendees with narrative solutions (based in systemic therapy), which can be used when we work with and care for young people.
About this webinar:
Jessica Bondy is the founder of the new charity ‘Words Matter’ which is campaigning for proper recognition of childhood verbal abuse. She will be speaking about why she set up the charity, her personal…