Moving Forward: Implementing the 'Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children'
Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) | 07 March 2013 | 2.4MB
This new handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ is aimed at legislators, policy-makers and decision-makers, as well as professionals and care providers, to support the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. It explains the key thrusts of the Guidelines, outlines the kind of policy responses required, and describes ‘promising’ examples of efforts already made to apply them in diverse communities, countries, regions and cultures. View document

Growth, Nutritional, and Developmental Status of Young Children Living in Orphanages in Kazakhstan
Mary O. Hearst, John H. Himes, The Spoon Foundation, Dana E. Johnson, Maria Kroupina, Aigul Syzdykova, Musa Aidjanov and T. Sharmonov | 12 March 2014
This article provide one of the most comprehensive assessments of physical growth, biological markers of growth and nutrition, and general behavioral development, in this case conducted on 286 children under 3 years of age living in 10 institutions in Kazakhstan that were globally deficient. View document

How the Republic of Georgia has Nearly Eliminated the Use of Institutional Care for Children
Aaron Luis Greenberg and Natia Partskhaladze | 31 January 2014
Infant Mental Health Journal has published an important Special Issue on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk. This article documents how between 2005 and 2013, the Government in the Republic of Georgia closed 32 large, state-run institutions housing children without adequate family care. View document

Adoption Policy and Evidence-Based Domestic Adoption Practice: A Comparison of Romania, Ukraine, India, Guatemala, and Ethiopia
Victor Groza and Kelley M. Bunkers | 12 March 2014
This article uses data collected from adoptive parents’ postadoption and governmental data in Romania, Ukraine, India, Guatemala, and Ethiopia to focus on domestic adoption in each of these countries. The article highlights both promising practices in domestic adoption as well as policies and practices that require additional research. View document

Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues on the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk: The Articles in Context
Robert B. McCall, Christina J. Groark and Niels P. Rygaard | 12 March 2014
This introductory article of a Special Issue of Infant Mental Health Journal on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk provides a useful overview, placing the articles in the broader contexts of research on institutionalized children and different initiatives to prevent inappropriate care, either through addressing the quality of the care provided or ensuring the appropriateness of the type of care environment provided. View document

UN CRC Country Care Reviews: Overview
Better Care Network | 11 February 2013
In this page, country care reviews for States that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are introduced and listed in order of the sessions of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. State Reports and Concluding Observations by the Committee with a particular focus on sections with recommendations for Family Environment and Alternative Care are captured and highlighted.

Country Care Review: Portugal
Better Care Network | 31 January 2014
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the third and fourth combined periodic report of Portugal under the Convention on the Rights of the Child at its sixty-fifth Session (13 Jan 2014 - 31 Jan 2014). View document

USA: Stepping Up for Kids -what government and communities should do to support kinship families
Annie E. Casey Foundation | 22 April 2012 | 1.61 MB
This comprehensive policy report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation summarizes what is known about kinship care in the United States, identifies the problems and issues these families face, and recommends how best to support caregivers as they step up to take responsibility for children in their extended families and communities. View document

The 'dance' of kinship care in England and Ireland: Navigating a course between regulation and relationships
Emily R. Munro, Robbie Gilligan | 31 December 2013
There has been a significant growth in the use of formal kinship care in the UK and Ireland in the last 20 years. The paper charts some of the reasons for the 'organic growth' of kinship care and the multiple dynamics that have shaped this. View document

Current trends, figures and challenges in out of home child care: An international comparative analysis
Jorge F. del Valle and Amaia Bravo | 31 December 2013
This article closes a special edition focused on the state of child protection in 16 countries chosen to represent very different cultural contexts, historical backgrounds, and social welfare systems with special attention to out-of-home care placements, principally family foster care and residential care, though several aspects related to adoption were included as well. View document