The Oak Foundation and The International Centre: Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking at the University of Bedfordshire are supporting this 0.5 post to develop a greater focus on actions taken by young people to combat sexual violence against children, including strategies for developing youth participation undertaken by international service providers.

This study involved the use of qualitative methods as part of a larger process evaluation to explore the longer-term experiences of parents who participated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Incredible Years Parenting Programme (IYPP) in disadvantaged settings in Ireland.

SCIE is looking for examples of how councils in the UK are identifying ‘seldom heard’ young people likely to have care and support needs as an adult.

The Department for Education, in the United Kingdom, has issued nine quality standards, which form part of a series of reforms to children’s homes, for consultation. The Department is seeking views from providers on the standards, as well as changes to administrative processes and a replacement of the current guidance on children’s homes regulations.

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)  has updated its Info4carekids website, a resource for looked-after children and young people.

In this documentary, Martin Sixsmith undertakes an investigative journey to determine the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the adoption “trade” that led thousands of children of unwed parents to be separated from their mothers and adopted abroad.

A Documentary film investigating the Irish Catholic Church's role in an adoption trade which saw thousands of illegitimate children taken from their mothers and sent abroad, often with donations to the Church flowing in the other direction.

This guide accompanies the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 from the United Kingdon and provides further explanation and information for everyone delivering residential care.

The theme of “Ensuring the Rights of the Child, and Family-based Services” chosen for the IFCO 2014 European Conference invites workshop ideas, plenary topics and attendees who envision foster care, and indeed, all alternative care as the holistic system that IFCO promotes.

Lumos is offering a four-day training course designed specifically to guide policy-makers and senior level managers and practitioners through the process of deinstitutionalisation (DI) and to help identify what needs to be done, at what stage and by whom.