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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…
Abstract
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…
The Bright Spots Programme helps local authorities better understand the well-being of their children and young people in care (aged 4-18) and care leavers.
Currently official statistics provide only a partial picture of children in care and care leavers’ lives. Data focuses on areas such as where children live, how many moves they have and how they are doing in terms of education and employment. None of this information tells us about the experience of care and leaving care from young people’s own viewpoints: are they happy, safe and feel they are doing well?
The Bright Spots programme…
Executive Summary
Research evidence from several countries shows that children with care experience are over-represented in the criminal justice system but, to date, no research has been conducted on this topic in the Irish context. This report presents the findings arising from a small-scale exploratory study commissioned by Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) that aimed to explore the extent to which children with care experience are over-represented in the Irish youth justice system.
The vast majority of children in care do not come into contact with the criminal justice system. The…
This statistics publication from the UK Department for Education provides information about looked after children in England for the year ending 31 March 2018, including their placement type, their legal status, the numbers starting and ceasing to be looked after, and the numbers who go missing or are away from their placement without authorisation. Data is reported on care leavers aged 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 years, and numbers include looked after children who were placed for adoption, the number who were adopted and the average time between different stages of the adoption process.
This Annie E. Casey Foundation brief, which utilizes the most comprehensive data set ever collected across all 50 states, fills in key details about the lives of young people who have experienced foster care. In no uncertain terms, the data describe how youth in foster care are falling behind their general population peers and on track to face higher levels of joblessness and homelessness as adults. With these challenges clear, Casey urges leaders to take action — to collect better data, support better practices and develop better policies — so that youth in care can get the support they need…
En este documento se presentan los principales resultados de una investigación realizada por la Asociación Civil Doncel durante el año 2017. El estudio se propuso conocer las dinámicas y trayectorias de transición del sistema de cuidados alternativos a la autonomía de los y las jóvenes que vivieron en instituciones de cuidado residencial de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Con este objetivo se buscó hacer una caracterización de la población actual de jóvenes que ya egresaron de dispositivos de cuidado institucional en la Ciudad, conocer su opinión respecto de su experiencia de egreso e indagar en…
Executive summary
In Limbo looks at the nature and extent of the income and housing challenges faced by Tasmanian families who have had children removed by Child Safety Services, and the impacts those challenges may have on positive family reunification outcomes.
In Limbo aims to:
- Highlight the income and housing challenges during family reunification for Tasmanian parents whose children are on Short Term Care and Protection Orders, and the impacts those material challenges have on successful family reunification processes.
- Review Tasmania’s ability to quantify…
This six-part video series provides an overview of the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) and the NYTD Review, a federal review conducted by the Children’s Bureau to assess how states collect and report data on youth transitioning out of foster care. Using whiteboard animation, the videos cover the history and implementation of NYTD, NYTD data collection and reporting, an introduction to the NYTD review, the system demonstration and survey methodology, the case record review, and the stakeholder interviews.
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Background
To measure the outcomes of youth transitioning out of foster care, states are required to administer the NYTD survey to cohorts of youth at ages 17, 19 and 21. The Children’s Bureau is pleased to release the following NYTD data highlights that compare the outcomes reported by youth in the second NYTD cohort at ages 17 and 19. Although most outcomes reported by Cohort 2 respondents at ages 17 and 19 were similar to outcomes reported by Cohort 1 youth at ages 17 and 19, this brief also highlights those outcomes where some notable differences were found.
Response rates for both…