Focused on the UK, this chapter considers the relevance of human rights in relation to children who are deprived of their liberty by the state on ‘welfare’ grounds for their own or others’ protection.

This chapter presents an analysis of the child protection system in England today.

This chapter identifies and examines the field of power inherent in the child protection system which works to constrain and enable children’s participation in child protection interventions.

This chapter provides an overview of the Irish child protection and welfare system, and examines continuities and discontinuities between the past and the present.

This episode of BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine program features an interview with Rukhiya Budden, who grew up in an orphanage in Kenya.

This article introduces a series from the Guardian that explores the experiences of fathers on paternity leave or caring full-time for their children.

This paper reviews the Healthy Young Minds (HYMs) program for looked after children in Tameside & Glossop, UK.

This report from the Social Market Foundation review the care system in the UK, including outcomes for children in care and the "silent crisis" in the care system.

This study aimed to compare the rates of psychiatric diagnoses and criminal convictions in young adulthood (ages 18–25 years) among children who were first placed at ages 2–6 years with those of children who were not placed and who had similar sociodemographic and family characteristics.

On the occasion of the Global Disability Summit, the UK Government became the first major donor of its kind to explicitly commit to promoting family and community-based care for all children.