Abstract Residential Care Settings (RCSs), including orphanages, children's homes, and
institutional care, form a significant welfare response in communities across the global …

This chapter explains the policies and practices of child protection in the Philippines. While
the country is experiencing rapid economic, social, and political transformations, there is …

This study determines the level of awareness of the teachers in the Child Protection Policy
and the level of its implementation in the Schools Division of Meycauayan City. The study …

This article explores the child protection actors, processes and child maltreatment issues in
a regional Local Government Unit in the Philippines. Utilising a qualitative case study …

The residential care of children and young people is a major welfare practice in the
Philippines. However, understandings of children and young people's life histories and …

Conditional welfare policies are frequently underpinned by pejorative representations of
those they target. Vulnerable children, under physical or moral threat from their welfare …

In recent decades, poverty has increasingly been marginalised in Australian policy
discourse. One strategy used by social justice advocates to revitalise a poverty policy …

Alternative care can be offered through foster family care, residential care or adoption. The
need to belong is equal for all groups of children, but the opportunities for creating a sense …

Despite the widespread utilization of residential care in the Philippines, little is known about
the lives and circumstances of children living within these contexts. In response, this article …

The Philippines has championed child participation from the drafting of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to the creation of child participation structures …