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Children in out-of-home care may experience multiple losses, from separation from birth parents and siblings to loss of friendships, culture, and sense of belonging and normality. The impacts of these significant losses on a child's development and wellbeing have typically been the subject of childhood trauma research. While understanding the impact is important, children's experiences of the losses and the ways adults can support them to grieve are less explored in research. Recently, out-of-home care researchers have begun to address this knowledge gap by applying the…
With the development of the Chinese economy and affected by the urban and rural household, urban and rural household registration system as well as various national policies, an increasing number of migrant workers have poured into cities in recent years. Thus, there is a noticeable surge in the group of left-behind children, which is captivated by the officials and society.
This study analyzes the influence of school, family and society on the psychological development of left-behind children from the perspective of the factors that affect their psychological problems. At the same time,…
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Background: The overrepresentation of Black families in child welfare systems across the various geographical locations (e.g. America, Canada, United Kingdom) is a growing concern. There are competing explanations for the causes of overrepresentation and recommendations for eliminating racial disproportionalities and disparities in child welfare system. This systemic scoping review will provide a succinct synthesis of the current literature on Black disproportionality and disparity in child welfare.
Methods/Design: This systemic scoping review will employ Arksey and O’Malley’s…
Child poverty hampers children’s development, educational outcomes, job prospects, health and behaviour, often resulting in the chronic intergenerational transmission of poverty. In this respect, with close to 57% of the Ugandan population below 18 years of age, and over 78% below the age of 35 years, the country's vision of becoming a middle-income country by 2040 remains highly contingent on Government’s ability to safeguard children’s right to contribute to national development. A healthy, educated and empowered young population will enable Uganda to reap an unprecedented demographic…
Abstract
Background
Pandemics have a wide range of economic, health and social consequences related to both the spread of a disease and efforts made by government leaders to contain it which may be particularly detrimental for the child welfare-involved population. This is because child welfare agencies serve some of the highest needs children and families. A significant proportion of these families face economic hardship, and as a result of containment measures for COVID-19, more families inevitably will.
Objective
Given the range of negative consequences related to the pandemic…
This is a resource guide designed for PEPFAR implementing partners to help them effectively design and implement economic strengthening activities for vulnerable children. The guide lists gender, age, social inclusion, conflict, accessibility, chronic illness, and environment as reasons that certain children and households are vulnerable.
This guide provides critical steps and considerations for sound decision-making and steps to determine resource allocations for household economic strengthening for vulnerable children. Household economic strengthening is the process by which individuals…
The purpose of this manual is to introduce a set of common global indicators for children in formal care, which includes children living in institutional care or formally arranged foster family care (whether with kin or families not previously known to the child family). This manual explains why this information is valuable and offers practical guidance on data collection.
Data on the situation of children in care should be regularly collected and analysed. This manual provides both the tools and analytical framework for gathering data. This is not necessarily done as a onetime exercise,…