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The Ontario provincial government announced a moratorium on ending foster care at age 18 during the coronavirus pandemic, but this is due to end on March 31.
The case Fulton v. Philadelphia is about foster care. But questions over a decades-old Supreme Court ruling may have wider implications.
Visits between foster children and their biological families are being disrupted and reunification hearings delayed.
New research suggests that 20% of existing foster carer households may be affected in some way by the virus, and that we have a unique opportunity to support vulnerable children in the months ahead.
Children’s voices are being omitted from their care records, with devastating effect.
To make meaningful progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, all provinces and territories should promptly follow B.C. and ban discriminatory ‘birth alerts.’
In some Manitoba schools, educators are working to recognize that the most urgent need for children who have experienced trauma is to establish the child’s sense of safety in the school.
Supporting mums in prison and whose babies are in care to breastfeed has benefits for mums, their children and wider society.
State governments are leading the charge against opioid makers over their role in the epidemic. A team of researchers at Penn State examined just how much the crisis has cost them.
In the US, black children wait longer to be adopted and cost less to adopt than white children.
Amid long-standing societal and policy issues that need to be addressed, young people in care deserve special consideration and focused attention regarding how to meet their educational needs.
The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
Young people leaving out-of-home care aren’t receiving the support they need to further their educations and transition successfully to adulthood.
Children in care simply aren’t getting the support they want when it comes to their education
An evaluation of a therapeutic foster care program has shown significant improvements in children previously thought too complex and challenging for foster care.
Britain’s press reulgator ruled that The Times distorted its coverage of a case about a Christian girl placed with Muslim foster carers.
Mothers are dying prematurely after their children are taken into foster care.
A professor of social work who grew up in foster care shines light on programs meant to help former foster youth make it through college.
It’s widely accepted that young people living in children’s homes or foster care are vulnerable to mental illness, but new research shows that social media can actually help.
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Lecturer in Social Work, The Open University
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
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PhD candidate (health), Dalhousie University
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Clinical Professor of Social Work, Boston University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
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Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Psychology, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia
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Professor of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
