This brief presents the rationale, service model, and estimated costs for expanding positive parenting services in Ukraine as part of the National Strategy to Ensure Every Child's Right to Grow Up in a Family Environment. It describes a comprehensive parenting support model aimed at strengthening the knowledge, skills, and resilience of parents and caregivers through community workshops, parenting classes, self-help groups, one-to-one counselling, and community outreach.

This brief summarizes findings from a workforce capacity assessment examining the knowledge, skills, and competencies of Ukraine's social sector workforce in support of the Strategy on Ensuring Every Child's Right to Grow Up in a Family Environment (2024–2028).

This brief summarizes findings from a workforce capacity assessment examining the knowledge, skills, and competencies of Ukraine's social sector workforce in support of the Strategy on Ensuring Every Child's Right to Grow Up in a Family Environment (2024–2028).

This policy brief outlines recommendations for strengthening Ukraine's social sector workforce through the adoption of competency-based professional standards, workforce regulation, and continuous professional development. Drawing on a rapid review of international experience from the United Kingdom, Romania, Germany, France, Sweden, and Poland, the publication examines how competency frameworks support professional identity, service quality, workforce regulation, and alignment between education and practice.

This article warns that Ukrainian children who have been unlawfully deported or forcibly transferred to Russia are at heightened risk of human trafficking, exploitation, and abuse due to their separation from families, lack of monitoring, and changes to their legal identity.

This article describes how Romania is in the final stages of closing its old orphanages, a process which began in the 1990s, when more than 100,000 children were living in such institutions.

This article highlights a major milestone in child protection reform in the Nisporeni district, where no children under the age of six are now living in residential care institutions. This achievement follows several years of coordinated efforts by UNICEF, the Moldovan government, and partners to deinstitutionalize young children and expand family-based and community care alternatives.

This qualitative study explores how educational resilience and institutional support shape the transition experiences of young people leaving residential care in Romania. Through interviews with care leavers and professionals, it examines the role of relationships, mentorship, education, and aftercare in supporting social integration.

This study examines the protection of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) displaced by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, focusing on their vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation across European host countries. Using a mixed-methods approach, it assesses the effectiveness of existing protection systems, identifies key intersectional risks, and highlights emerging good practices, with the aim of informing improved responses to current and future large-scale child displacement crises.

This brief examines how armed conflict affects children’s development and family life, drawing on attachment theory and insights from the war in Ukraine. It highlights both the harms of war and the resilience of families, emphasizing the need for targeted support to help caregivers and professionals provide safe, stable care for children during and after conflict.