This report, which is also the fifth in the series, reflects on how children and the realisation of their rights continue to challenge our conscience even today.

This research is based on a stock-taking of the current situation. It is based on a comprehensive literature review and a genuine primary research with service users as well as policy makers, service providers, children and families.

The purpose of this report is to: reveal how much Australian governments spend every year because children and young people have reached crisis point and highlight the opportunity of earlier and wiser investment in children to improve the lives of young Australians while reducing pressure on government budgets.

There have long been doubts within social work about the viability of reconciling participatory practice with the statutory power that comes hand-in-hand with child protection work. This book explores this issue by proposing an original theory of children’s participation within statutory child protection interventions. It prioritises children’s voices through presentation of a wide collection of children’s experiences of the UK child protection system including three unique in-depth accounts.

This paper explores the leaving care policies of the Australian state of Victoria, and the reasons for policy "inaction" on providing post-care support to youth leaving care until the age of at least 21 years old.

This harmonised Case Management (CM) toolkit includes standard operating procedures describing how each step of the CM process should be implemented, tools or forms that should be used for CM, and additional guidance that must be taken into account by actors involved in CM.

This study identified children born to mothers in foster care and documented Child Protective Service (CPS) involvement among children.

This paper presents a qualitative analysis of front‐line practices regarding emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protection.

This article discusses a key meeting for children in care – the Child in Care Review – and examines the extent to which children and young people are able to participate and exert a level of control over their lives. The research, conducted in England, formed part of a wider exploration of the views and experiences of all those involved in such reviews, namely Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs), social workers, senior managers and – the focus of this article – the young people concerned.

This doctoral research explores how the European Union membership has changed the post-communist heritage of institutional care in Bulgaria, focusing on the transformation of orphanages through the deinstitutionalization reform