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The Connecticut Turnaround [PDF]

, 2015
Over five years, Connecticut has made substantial progress in turning around its troubled child welfare agency. Partnering with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other advisors, the state has instituted improvements, driven down the number of unnecessary

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Safeguarding the Rights of Children Living in Kinship Care in South Africa

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
By the early 2000s the practice of using the foster care system as a measure to subsidise the income of families who cared for the children of relatives was firmly entrenched in South Africa.
Hanneretha Kruger
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Making Social Work Work: Improving social work for vulnerable families and children without parental care around the world: A literature review [PDF]

, 2012
This literature review calls for families and children in developing countries to be supported in ways that are appropriate to the conditions, culture and resources available rather than through approaches to social work that are common in the west ...
Bilson, Andy, Westwood, Joanne Louise
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Navigating the Moral Landscape of Foster Care: The Risk of Blame and Suspicion in Paid Parenthood

Social Inclusion
Foster care provides a family‐like upbringing for children who cannot stay with their biological parents for various reasons. While the practice of paying foster parents is not questioned, the level of the fee and how it is spent (or not spent) are ...
Katarina Jacobsson
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Supporting looked after children in education [PDF]

, 2012
This chapter, aimed principally at teachers and managers in education services, outlines the context and practice issues in relation to looked after children in education in Scotland.
Connelly, Graham
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Indigenous Abolition and the Third Space of Indian Child Welfare

Genealogy
This article introduces the Third Space of Indian child welfare to theorize how Indigenous nations simultaneously engage and disrupt settler legal systems while building sovereign, care-based alternatives.
Theresa Ysabel Rocha Beardall
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The Story of Family to Family: The Early Years (1992-2006) of an Initiative to Improve Child Welfare Systems [PDF]

, 2008
Outlines the crisis in child welfare systems and the development of Casey's initiative to increase the agencies' frontline capacity, prioritize reunification, and provide neighborhood-based foster care.
Leila Fiester
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Interventions for pre‐school children in foster care: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of child‐related outcomes

JCPP Advances
Background Children in foster care are at high risk of future mental health and developmental difficulties. A number of interventions may be helpful; however, the effectiveness of interventions specifically for pre‐school children in foster care is not ...
Natalie Kirby, Camilla Biggs, Megan Garside, Gloria Cheung, Philip Wilson, Matt Forde, Manuela Deidda, Dennis Ougrin, Fiona Turner, Karen Crawford, Helen Minnis   +10 more
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Editorial Vol11 no1

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011
As this issue of the Journal goes to press, the work of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) has been incorporated within a new Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland (CELCIS).
Irene Stevens
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Foster Care in California: Achievements and Challenges [PDF]

, 2010
Examines changes in California's foster care policies, processes, and practices; progress since 2000 in reducing the number of children in foster care; contributing factors; and remaining challenges, including issues of payments and aging ...
Caroline Danielson, Helen Lee
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