The main purpose of this paper is to explore non-kin foster carers' sense of parental competence and analyze its determinants and predictors in non-kin foster families.

This video shares the views of the Croatian partner's trainers, young people and care professionals involved in the "Prepare for Leaving Care" project training for care professionals.

With a focus on the situation in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Greece, this report aims to provide a better understanding of the gendered impact of the refugee crisis on unaccompanied adolescent boys, aged 13 to 17, and men, single or living separately from their families; and to highlight actual and potential gaps in the humanitarian response.

The main goals of this study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice were to determine the incidence of preadoption breakdown in Portugal, describe preadoptive parents’ reasons for ending placement, compare intact/disrupted placements, and identify adoption disruption risk and protective factors.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The government of Malta has unveiled its final draft of the new Children’s Protection Act, according to this article from the Times of Malta.

This is a pilot study on the sensitive issue of how children and young people experience family contact in foster care, and the views of key adults in their lives on the same issue.

This study analyzes the opinions of foster families and social workers regarding the benefits and problems associated with contact visits.

This study analyzes the opinions of foster families and social workers regarding the benefits and problems associated with contact visits.

In this paper, the authors examine the reunification patterns of children left‐behind by parents who migrated to France and Spain in order to understand whether children from standard two‐parent families differ in their chances of joining their migrant parents in the destination country compared to children in non‐standard families (single parent and blended families), as well as the potential role of immigration policies on these chances.