Supported by the non-profit organisation Lumos, British Family Court Judge Nick Crichton, a pioneer of the Drug and Alcohol Courts in the UK, is advising his contemporaries in the Czech Republic as part of the overall reform process in the country to end the institutionalization of children. Nick Crichton has 30 years of experience of sitting as a District Judge and has worked with children and families. He presented at the Czech Judicial Academy, a training and education academy for Czech judges in Kromeriz, Czech Republic on 20-21 January. 

For Our Children Foundation will host a conference on 15 January 2016 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

To obtain complete data on the child protection system and related problems in Ukraine, Hope and Homes for Children conducted a comprehensive study of the child protection system in Ukraine during the 2015 - 2016 time period. To ensure the integrity of the data, the structure of the study included components focused on different levels of the child protection system in Ukraine (national, regional and rayon), and combined both quantitative and qualitative approaches and methods. The system of institutional care was the main focus of the study.

În temeiul prevederilor alineatului (1) al articolului 12 din Legea nr.140 din 14 iunie 2013 privind protecția specială a copiilor aflați în situație de risc și a copiilor separați de părinți (Monitorul Oficial al Republicii Moldova, 2013, nr.167-

În temeiul prevederilor punctului 89 din Strategia pentru protecţia copilului pe anii 2014-2020, aprobată prin Hotărîrea Guvernului nr. 434 din 10 iunie 2014 (Monitorul Oficial al Republicii Moldova, 2014, nr. 160-166, art.

The article aims to show the process of deinstitutionalisation in Bulgaria. 

This paper examines the notion of “unaccompanied and separated children”  of Russia.

The Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity (TransMonEE) Database, established in 1992 by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, captures a vast range of data relevant to social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, young people and women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The 2016 database includes data on children in alternative care for Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia, as well as data on child protection, social protection, and other topics.

The aim of this article is to study the situation on realizing children’s rights in Poland and in Russia in the context of Janusz Korczak’s principles.

Due to poverty and military conflicts in the east, the number of children in institutional care in Ukraine has increased.