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The Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS) is the first large-scale prospective longitudinal study of children and young people in out-of-home care in Australia. It includes a cohort of all 4126 children and young people (age 0 to 17 years) who entered out-of-home care for the first time over an 18-month period from May 2010 to October 2011 in New South Wales, with a focus on 2828 of these…
The Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Alternative Family-based and Community-based Care of Children in Kenya provide guidance for the comprehensive implementation of the Guidelines for Alternative Family Care for Children in Kenya (2014). The SOPs guide actors to provide high-quality and standardized alternative care services to children separated from their parents (including emergency placements).
The SOPs provide step-by-step practical guidance on:
- Implementing safe and appropriate alternative family and community-based care services, especially when placing…
National Network for Children (NNC) released its monitoring Report Card 2023 which evaluates the progress of state care institutions in eight areas – Child participation, Child Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative care, Protection from all forms of Violence, Child Justice, Early Childhood Development, Child Health, Education, Sport, Culture and Leisure.
The 12th edition of the Report Card receives its highest rating so far: 3.33 out of 6.
The report notes the greatest progress in the care for early…
This report presents the findings from the National Survey of Residential Centres for Children with Disabilities in Rwanda.
The survey aimed at gathering comprehensive and disaggregated data related to residents’ characteristics, staff profile, and the minimum standards for the centres. Using a digitalized questionnaire with Kobo Toolbox, data was collected from all centres recognized by NCPD and local authorities as caring for children and youths with disabilities in Rwanda on an overnight basis.
The questionnaire comprised three sections: face-to-face interview questions, a document…
Over the past year, Eurochild has worked with its members, UNICEF, and over 50 national experts across Europe on the DataCare Project to map how EU Member States and the UK currently collect data on the situation of children in alternative care.
This report presents the interim findings of this project, based on the analysis of 14 countries who participated in the study at the end of 2020. The interim findings centre around four core findings:
- National officially published data can be mapped onto internationally recognised categories of alternative care.
- …
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Background and objective
Youth with intellectual disabilities involved in child welfare systems are at greater risk of sexual victimization than youth who have not been investigated for child maltreatment.…
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Background
Children with disabilities in high-income countries are more likely than their peers to be exposed to violence. To date, only two studies have reported nationally robust data on the association between child disabilities and exposure to violent parental discipline.
Objective
To estimate prevalence rates and adjusted rate ratios of exposure to violent parental discipline among children with and without disabilities in middle- and low-income countries.
Participants and Setting
Nationally representative samples involving a total of 206,147 children aged 2−14…
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Background
To monitor stability of care, the proportion of children in England who have experienced three or more placements in the preceding 12-month period is published in government statistics. However, these annual snapshots cannot capture the complexity and heterogeneity of children’s longitudinal care histories.
Objective
To describe the stability of care histories from birth to age 18 for children in England using a national administrative social care dataset, the Children Looked After return (CLA).
Participants and setting
We analyzed CLA data for a large,…
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Background
Research suggests that up to one-third of children who reunify re-enter care because of continued maltreatment. For young children, this is particularly detrimental due to rapid brain development during the first years of life.
Objective
This study examined family- and state child welfare system predictors of successful reunification, or reunification with no reentries into foster care.
Methods
A sample of N=53,789 from the 2012 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System of children ages zero-to-five who reunified was utilized. Children were…
Uganda has a rich policy and legislative framework for the inclusion of persons with disabilities. Over the years, this has been adapted to respond to development trends. During the colonial and early post-colonial eras, services for persons with disabilities were provided by institutions. Today, Uganda’s disability policy and legislative framework emphasizes a rights-based approach to disability and takes into account ratified conventions, regional treaties, laws, policies, regulations, guidelines and executive directives (presidential manifestos), within the framework of the Constitution of…