This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children.  All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.

Aujourd’hui un des domaines le plus critique, par rapport aux services à la personne, est celui des interventions auprès de la fragilité des familles avec des enfants mineurs. Les récentes études scientifiques révèlent l’urgence de réaliser des interventions de promotion des relations familiales, afin de prévenir les situations pour lesquelles il n’y a pas d’autres solutions que l’éloignement des enfants mineurs ou, quand cela s’est déjà vérifié, pour favoriser le plus possible la recomposition du noyau familial.

This guidance aims to raise awareness of the importance of children and young people in alternative care settings being able to make, influence and participate in decisions about their own lives, and other matters affecting them.

This is Save the Children's decalogue for child support in emergencies.

The article reviews the historical development of out-of-home care in Italy and Spain and compares foster family and residential care, as well as the main research contributions to these topics in both countries.

Les enfants placés ont souvent des frères et sœurs. Malgré l’importance du lien fraternel et des décisions le concernant, les recherches européennes sur les relations fraternelles sont rares et plus encore celles sur les fratries placées. Dans la plupart des pays, les données officielles disponibles renseignent sur le nombre, le sexe et l’âge des frères et sœurs dans les familles et leur statut social, mais elles ne disent rien sur les autres caractéristiques des relations fraternelles et de la situation familiale. 

This publication by SOS Children’s Villages International brings together research findings, learning and policy recommendations about sibling relations in alternative care gathered from five different SOS Children’s Villages associations (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Spain).

This article highlights findings from various studies of developed countries focusing specifically on foster-care outcomes.

This document provides a review of outcome research on family foster care services in Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Further research directions to improve family foster care are suggested.

This evaluation study examined a Family Services Centre (FSC) operating in a socio‐culturally deprived suburban area of Southern Italy to explore how promoting innovative practices to meet increasingly complex family needs.