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See a new report capturing the perceptions of children affected by the conflict in Ukraine through focus group discussions over a two-year period; a new study on a child's right to family life when placed in public care; a new brief containing high-level guidance and recommendations to consider in designing frameworks to scale up, coordinate and support the transition of individual residential care services and much more.
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.
See a report on the impact of deinstitutionalization on children in the El Salvadoran Child Protection System; the first-ever National Kinship Care Strategy to be published in the UK; a global manual aimed at helping countries and their national statistical systems to improve the collection, analysis, sharing and use of data on children on the move; and a free chapter from the "Working with Children Who Have Experienced Neglect" Good Practice Guide and much more.
See a report on the impact of COVID-19 on Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) and child protective services (CPS) worldwide, an article on the first 6 months of the war in Ukraine and its implications for social workers engaged in work with children and their families, a study on the prevalence of mental health disorders among Looked After Children in the UK, and national guidelines and standards to guide state and non-state actors in Kenya to streamline the transitioning of care systems, children and institutions in the country and much more.
See a report that makes the case for investing in family care in Moldova, a new report on understanding the lived experience of young adults who grew up in the residential care centres in Tanzania and the impact on their lives, a new thematic brief on volunteering, voluntourism, tourism and trafficking in orphanages with guidance on key policy measures and concrete steps to eliminate orphanage tourism and voluntourism, and a new set of guidelines to support practitioners to develop messaging for children and young people that clearly communicates the intention to transition and the…
This issue of the BCN newsletter highlights the latest research, news, videos, events, and other resources related to children's care around the globe. See a report on the comprehensive national strategy for deinstitutionalization/care transformation for Ukrainian children, a research report on the development of a National Alternative Care Action Plan in Thailand. Lorazepam a UNICEF report on children with disabilities in Eastern and Southern Africa and a global study on quality of life outcomes for adolescents in…
Udayan Care launched an academic journal, Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB), in 2014. This 10th issue of the journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’ The issue includes research studies, legal and policy perspectives, case studies, desk reviews, opinion pieces, international perspectives, interviews with experts from the field, good models and best practices, and movie and book reviews.
The issue features an interview with a care-leaver from Sri Lanka who grew up in institutions…
A shock report, produced by two historians and published on Monday February 6, questions the "systemic" nature of the irregularities which have persisted in twenty countries for more than thirty years.
This newsletter issue from Senator Linda Reynolds of Western Australia, written in conjunction with Kate van Doore of Griffith Law School, was written in preparation for the Australian Parliamentary inquiry on modern slavery and describes the ways in which orphanage trafficking constitutes modern-day slavery. The senator calls on her constituents to help by committing not to volunteer in orphanages overseas and encouraging others to do the same.
Australians have long known the harm institutionalised care can do to children, yet Australians are rushing in record numbers to…
As child protection practitioners, many of us - whether it be in the context of policy, programming, service delivery or grant-making - will be familiar with the challenges of trying to undertake quality research, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) whilst operating within a context of limited human and financial resources. And whilst we know that increased quality evidence is fundamental for improved programming and policy, the very real day-to-day demands of developing, supporting or managing a program in a low-resource context can often overshadow this aspect of our work.
In an effort…