This article highlights the impact three recent television documentaries on British television have had on public awareness and understanding of foster care and adoption processes.

This article provides an overview of the current situation in the out-of-home care in Norway and Sweden. Development in later years is described and discussed, including the trends towards privatization of the welfare system in both countries and the role of private, commercial actors within the care sector including out-of-home care for children and young people.

This evaluation schedule set out the areas that inspectors will make judgements on when they inspect children’s homes in the UK. It should be read alongside the framework for the inspection of children’s homes.

This document sets out the framework and guidance for the inspection of children’s homes in the UK. It should be read alongside the evaluation schedule for the inspection of children’s homes.

This paper discusses participatory research with young people who are leaving public care in Finland to begin independent lives.

An Act in the United Kingdom to make provision about children, families,and people with special educational needs or disabilities; to make provision about the right to request flexible working; and for connected purposes.

In this review, the authors highlight evidence drawn from research in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and the United States, on the impact of growing up in care beyond the early twenties.

This report examines the proposed reforms for the regulation of children’s residential care in England.

This systematic review published by the Campbell Collaboration reviewed controlled experimental and quasi experimental studies in which children removed from the home for maltreatment and subsequently placed in kinship care were compared with children placed in non-kinship foster care for child welfare outcomes in the domains of well-being, permanency, or safety.

This online resource provides an overview of research, conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), on national child protection systems in the 28 European Union (EU) Member States.