Residential child and youth care is examined in places from which practice-based evidence has been rarely shared with the rest of the World. Building on Volume 1 that used the FIFA Football Confederation Regions to step outside contemporary discourses about residential child and youth care, further contributions from 23 UEFA countries are offered in this second volume which follows. A brief rationale for the study and its comparative methodology is offered before highlighting five emergent themes about residential child and youth care in Europe, including: residential child and youth care workers as social pedagogues and educators; Opening Doors and the de-institutionalisation agenda in Europe; legacies of historical abuse as well as residential living and learning opportunities; asylum-seeking minors and the care of war refugee youths; and challenges associated with implementing the UN Guidelines on the Alternative Care of Children (2010) across all EU and non-EU countries of Europe.
