In response to a relentless rise in calls to New York state’s child abuse hotline, alongside stark racial disparities, social workers, doctors, teachers and others are mobilizing to change the law.

Child welfare workers are required to assess, address, and make decisions about a multitude of complex issues related to child maltreatment, including child safety and wellbeing. This study aimed t...

An emerging parallel economy peddles purity, health and fitness to promote wellbeing – and a political worldview.

The civil liberties watchdog is warning that NZ is sleepwalking its way to becoming a surveillance society as CCTV systems become more and more common in the country’s businesses.

Hamas is scheduled to release four female Israeli soldiers in Gaza and Israel is expected to then free 200 Palestinians.

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As social work instructors, we have observed students increasingly wanting to engage in critical conversations about mandated reporting. Few resources are available to support instructors in facili...

This article explores the understandings of academics who carry out unfunded research and the nature of their academic identity, in a context where research funding is realigned to government and c...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed tens of thousands. Al Jazeera asks why international law has been disregarded.

Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy

This qualitative study utilized interviews with American Indian/Alaskan Native young adults with lived expertise in foster care, Tribal child welfare workers and court professionals to gather train...

Based on an analysis of 14 national child welfare policies, the paper explores how relational and cultural continuity are framed in national foster ca…

This paper reports on interviews with 30 individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, or South Sudan, all of whom had resettled in South Australia. Participants were interviewed abou...

Internationally, particularly in anglophone countries, there are increasing calls for a new vision for child welfare involving significant shifts in s…