We welcome original research articles that raise important, new and relevant research questions, from academicians, researchers, practitioners, social workers, policy-makers, mental health experts, managers, activists, and students working in the field of alternative care of children. We also invite legal and human rights-based perspectives, policy frameworks, opinion pieces, and good practices/models along with research around poverty, COVID 19, financial crisis and its impact on alternative care spaces.

Invitation will be sent out for universities, practitioners and institutions requesting to submit abstracts on selected themes. Contributions can be in the form of empirical and theoretical research papers, and case studies. Papers will be reviewed by a group of academics and select a few to present at the symposia.