This paper is based on research into the transition of young people leaving public care in Romania.

This paper discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study which explored the process of leaving long-stay institutional state care in Romania during 2002–4, a period at the heart of accelerated EU-enforced childcare reform.

This paper uses comparisons of child benefit packages in the European Union and Central and Eastern European and Confederation of Independent States (CEE/CIS) countries derived using model family methods.

Published by UNICEF, the report At Home or in a Home, provides an overview of the major trends and concerns about children in formal care and institutions as well as adoption Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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The purpose of this paper is to provide background information and offer pragmatic steps in relation to priority no. 3 of the European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: “To transfer care from institutions to the community”. The paper was produced in preparation for the conference in Bucharest, Romania 26-27 November, 2010.

The purpose of this paper is to give meaning and insight into some of the key drug and alcohol issues that affect children from the perspectives of the children themselves. Research shows that large numbers of children who are separated from their parents are particularly vulnerable to developing drug and alcohol problems. Special attention is paid throughout the report on children looked after by relatives, foster carers, and institutions.

An eye-opening analysis of the social, economic, political and family problems contributing to an overwhelming HIV epidemic that disproportionately affects young people, adolescents and children.

This guidance note is part of the Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons launched by the Global Protection Cluster in Geneva in June 2010. The target audience is staff of humanitarian, human rights and development agencies working in IDP operations in the field.

This article explores the experience of institutionalization of Romanian children and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Theory.