This article describes how the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in Ireland, Norma Foley, has announced the start of a consultation process for the forthcoming “National Policy Framework on Alternative Care” which aims to shape Irelan

This Guardian article tells the story of Craig, who became homeless at 13 after running away from a children’s home in Nottingham.

This article examines how care leavers navigate their relationships with biological mothers and fathers. It is based on a qualitative study from Austria, which focused on social networks and family relationships of 18-to 27-year-old care-experienced youth.

The article highlights how Moldova has dramatically reduced the number of children in institutional care from around 17,000 to just 700, with an ambitious goal of closing all orphanage‑style institutions by 2027.

This article reports a 45% increase in the number of children in England waiting for adoption since 2022, while the number of approved adopters has fallen by around 42%.

This article describes how the Ukrainian government is advancing a draft law on housing policy (Draft Law No. 12377), which guarantees that orphans and children deprived of parental care will receive temporary or social housing within one month of

This Human Rights Watch (HRW) article reports that France is committing serious, systematic violations of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children, citing a UN body’s findings that flawed age‑assessment processes leave many children misclassif

This article from CELCIS explores the Scottish Government’s consultation on creating a universal definition of “care experience”, advocating for language and policy that reflect diverse cultural contexts—including those of people from the Global S

On October 23, 2025, the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative hosted a webinar exploring Kafaalah—a long-standing childcare practice in Muslim communities that has been observed for more than 1,400 years.

This report presents findings from an evaluation by Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) that used a realist approach to examine how care reform progressed in Guatemala, India, Kenya, and Moldova across five key system components. It identifies advocacy, government ownership, collaboration, and capacity-building as major drivers of change and offers recommendations for governments and partners to embed family care in national systems, strengthen coordination and workforce capacity, and sustain reforms through evidence, shared learning, and long-term commitment.