This issue of the ICEB journal is a special edition on the aftercare concerns of young adults who leave the care of agencies and embark on a journey of their own.

This 10th issue of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB) journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’

Children living at an unauthorised orphanage in Tirumullaivoyal, India have come forward with allegations of sexual and physical assault, naming four people, including the owners of the orphanage, as their abusers, according to this article from the Hindu.

This paper brings to fore the need to compile an accurate and comprehensive database for children living in institutional care in India.

Officials uncovered "deplorable" conditions and sexual assault at a children's care home in Bihar, India, according to this article from BBC News.

The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of children residing at an orphanage.

The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and practices regarding menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls residing in selected orphanages of Haryana.

"A woman working at Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby," according to this article from BBC News.

India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in its efforts to "monitor the implementation of the Juvenile Justice (care and protection) Act of 2015," has compiled a report enumerating the number of children in child care homes and institutions throughout the country, according to this article from the Telegraph India.

The state government of Kerala, India has issued an order to take over the Janaseva Sisubhavan children's home, "placing the institution and housing of its inmates under the control of the District Collector for a period of three months or till the time the children are reunited with their families or moved to a secure facility, whichever is earlier."