This podcast episode describes what self-harm is and how social workers can support young people and carers who are self-harming.

"Up to 40 new areas will benefit from £15 million to expand promising innovative approaches to keeping families safely together," says this news release from the UK Department for Education.

This paper considers the importance of material objects for looked after and adopted children integrated as part of life story work practices.

This paper asks how state parental responsibility towards unaccompanied minors is given meaning, and with what consequences, for both frontline workers and unaccompanied minors alike?

This year's education conference will focus on positive educational journeys for children and young people with care experience.

In this blog post for Hope and Homes for Children, Stephen Ucembe writes about the damaging impacts of orphanages in the African context. 

This guest blog post for the Howard League, written by Sam Turner of the charity Become, explores what care-experienced young people in the UK have told the charity about their interactions with the police.

This review aimed to identify, appraise and synthesise published literature concerned with the reunification of looked after children with their birth parents in the UK. 

This paper examines the use of Family Group Conferences (FGCs) in engaging with looked after children.

The objective of this research project was to profile the experiences of survivors abused in long-term child care in Scotland, and to develop a model which linked maltreatment, risk and protective factors, and outcomes.