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This UNICEF/CTWWC case study documents the story of Mary, one of thousands of children in Kenya who were sent to family care suddenly without any preparation when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Mary's story highlights the need for family assistance to see a reunification through to successful reintegration.
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The goal of this worldwide study was to first identify the global prevalence of child abuse by country or region and second to identify the factors that influenced child abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This article in the World Academy of Science Journal is a review of current global studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children in residential care and children living with their families.
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This study aimed to explore the risks facing orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home in a township setting during COVID-19 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Understanding the Situation |
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This Lumos working paper examines the relationship between education and institutional care and the fact that many children – especially those who are most vulnerable – can only access education in residential settings, settings which share similar harmful characteristics with institutional care settings.
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The purpose of this study, based in France, is to explore the Emotion Regulation Strategies (ERS) of children in foster care and to highlight those most commonly employed in family or placement contexts.
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This article in the latest issue of Adoption Quarterly discusses the evolution of adoption policy and practices in Guatemala from the 1990s to 2021.
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This analysis conducted by the UK Office for National Statistics explores the education and social care background of care-experienced young people in England who were imprisoned at any point up to the age of 24 years.
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El objetivo fundamental del presente libro es el análisis comparativo de las políticas, prácticas e investigaciones en relación a los sistemas de protección infantil en diversos países de América Latina y Europa. // This book provides a comparative analysis of policies, practices and research in relation to child protection systems in various countries of Latin America and Europe.
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This UK-based study aimed to develop an explanatory theory and model of the processes involved in fostering looked after children and the relationship between the roles of parent and professional. The study aimed to extend the understanding of the complexity of the foster carer role.
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This global study examined 106,979 tweets posted by 34,370 unique users from 2010 to 2019 to understand the sentiment of those indirectly involved in orphanage tourism and its change over time.
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This analysis found that strengthening family-based care is a key policy response to the more than 15 million orphaned and separated children who have lost one or both parents in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers estimated the cost-effectiveness of family-based care environments for preventing HIV and death in this population.
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This chapter in the publication "Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth" examines the special needs and challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ youth in residential child and youth care settings in two European programs.
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This article reviews the key reform processes in the domain of social protection in the Republic of North Macedonia, with a focus on social services for children without parents and parental care.
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This chapter in the book, "Psychological Perspectives on Understanding and Addressing Violence Against Children: Towards Building Cultures of Peace", explores how violence impacts children in various types of alternative care from larger scale institutions such as orphanages to family-based care models like foster care. The book explores the topic from a global perspective.
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In this U.S.-based longitudinal study, over 200 pre-adolescent children recently placed into out-of-home care were asked about the difficulty and helpfulness of placement and how their lives might be different had they not been removed. The same participants were interviewed 10 years later.
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The aim of this article in the latest issue of the European Journal of Social Work is to analyse the factors that intervene in decision-making by childcare professionals regarding non-kin foster care in the north-east of Spain.
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This study aims to provide evidence and instruction to social work educators, policymakers and practitioners in Australia’s child protection, wellbeing, and justice systems about why and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander controlled organizations are best placed to lead out-of-home care service delivery for Indigenous children, their family and community.
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This systematic review based in North America aimed to identify components essential to building a model of care for youth involved in sex trafficking in child welfare. It identified articles that included programs and interventions for youth involved in sex trafficking in child welfare.
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This paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
studies the emotional and behavioral difficulties and the personal wellbeing of adolescents under protective measures in Spain.
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This UK Department for Education report charts the experiences and views of parents in the UK whose children were made subject to a supervision order or a care order at home at the end of care proceedings.
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines |
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This IASC guidance note aims to support programme implementers, coordinators, and other humanitarian actors in addressing suicide and self-harm in humanitarian settings.
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The Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee warned in this report that plans to integrate children's services into the National Care Service Bill lacked vital information and urged the government to provide more details on the financial implications.
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This BCN/CTWWC study explores catalysts for transition. It was based on interviews conducted with Charitable Children’s Institutions’ (CCI) directors that sought to identify and explore the range of factors that influenced each director’s decision to transition their residential care services, and the interplay between those factors.
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Visit the Transition Hub for more information on residential care service transition.
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This Hope and Homes for Children publication provides critical lessons learned, practical evidence and recommendations to support global, regional and national decision makers to build political will, strategies, policies, and target funding to transform care systems.
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This research report, developed by the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth and the UNICEF MENA Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa, presents five case studies that demonstrate how integrated social protection and child protection systems enhance efficiency, especially of the social service workforce, and improve socio-economic and child outcomes: Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Egypt, and Brazil.
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In this Better Care Network case study, the high-risk nature of transition posed legal, social, emotional, and financial challenges for Lighthouse Children's Village throughout its closure and reintegration processes during transition. The financial implications of managing these challenges are outlined in this analysis.
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Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform |
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This case study details the experience of Attim, a 54-year-old grandmother from Eastern Uganda who provides care for her grandchildren after they left residential care.
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This case study documents the story of David's reintegration from a residential care home for children with disabilities in Rwanda to kinship care with his grandparents.
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Practitioner Profiles
These profiles allow practitioners to share learning and connect with others working in care reform.
Here are a few of the most recent profiles featured in our library:
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Changing the Way We Care, Moldova
Monitoring Evaluation Accountability Learning Officer
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Heaven's Family
VP of International Ministry
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New Smiles Organisation
Senior Social Worker
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Hagar International Foundation
Operations Manager for Client Care
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Organizational Directory
Our Organizational Directory lists organizations, agencies, foundations, and networks working in the field of children’s care.
Find organizations or other groups working in your country or region with whom you may be interested to partner or collaborate.
If you have a website or other documentation of the work that your organization does, send it along for review for possible inclusion in our online directory.
If you would like to feature a more in-depth profile of your organization in our Directory, please fill out this form with information about your organization and we will review it.
* Please note that the inclusion or exclusion of organizations in this Directory does not necessarily entail any judgement or endorsement on the part of BCN or its advisory group on the quality of their programs or services.
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This is a recording of a UNICEF webinar presenting the launch of a global database of children in residential care on December 14, 2022.
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The government of Rwanda is in the final phases of its care reform program. Having reintegrated the majority of children from residential care back to families and communities, they are now working on the reintegration of children with disabilities. In this webinar, we hear from policymakers and practitioners on how this has been done and key lessons learned.
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Olena Merzliakova, a psychologist and PhD in Psychology, shares effective and simple tips for parents. She is one of the experts engaged for the EU-funded parent hotline established this summer by the UNDP.
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This PBS documentary chronicles a Honduran family’s struggle to reunite after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border three years earlier under the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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This video by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action details the three levels of prevention in child protection in humanitarian action.
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This Family for Every Child podcast episode explores the context for children and young people with care experience in New Zealand.
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This final webinar in a Family for Every Child series focuses on the use of creative therapies in supporting the mental health of vulnerable children and youth.
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Morgane Le Cam - Le Monde 09 Feb 2023
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Joe English - UNICEF 06 Feb 2023
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Ailbhe Conneely - RTÉ 25 Jan 2023
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Ewelina U. Ochab - Forbes 08 Jan 2023
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Anna Maria Ciobanu 07 Jan 2023
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Gabriella Józwiak - Children and Young People Now 03 Jan 2023
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Isobel Koshiw - The Guardian 27 Dec 2022
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Soraya Ebrahimi - National News 20 Dec 2022
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Agnel Philip, Eli Hager, Suzy Khimm 20 Dec 2022
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The Associated Press 08 Dec 2022
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Noah Robinson - The Justice Gap 07 Dec 2022
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The Associated Press 07 Dec 2022
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Newsletter participants, currently 4,837 in total, work on issues related to the care and support of vulnerable children across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. The purpose of the newsletter is to enable members to exchange information on matters of mutual concern. If you would like to share a document, raise a specific issue, request a newsletter subscription, or reach out in any other way to the Network, please send the information to us at contact@bettercarenetwork.org or visit our website at www.bettercarenetwork.org.
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