The McSilver Institute’s peer-reviewed academic journal, Global Social Welfare: Research, Policy, and Practice, has published a special issue focusing on children’s care situations and their impact on children’s development and well-being, with the goal of informing policy and practice. Guest edited by Mark Canavera, associate director of the CPC Learning Network, and Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, the special issue stems from a 2014 symposium their organizations co-hosted at the McSilver Institute on “The State of the Evidence on Children’s Care.”
As Canavera and Martin noted in their editorial, Measuring Better Care: Building the Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice Around Children’s Care, the nine articles in the issue fall into three sections. “The first section presents recent efforts to improve the measurement of large-scale trends in family structure and composition as well as children’s care and living arrangements. The second explores policy and program effectiveness concerning efforts to strengthen family-based care for children. The third section presents initiatives to better understand the situation of children living outside of family care.”
By special arrangement with Springer, the journal’s publisher, the entire issue will be free to read for the entire month of June 2016. We hope you will take advantage of this open access period to read Canavera and Martin’s editorial and the eight articles included in this special issue.
To read GSW articles, learn more about the journal, or submit a paper, please visit the journal’s website.