Arab Today reports over 20,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed the sea to Italy.

Within the context of kinship care, the main objectives of this work are to study the characteristics of contact between foster children and their birth parents, and their relationship with key variables of fostering, the children and their kinship caregivers.

According to this article from the Voice of America, migrant children in Greece will begin school next week.  The Greek Education Minister states that 1,500 children will be taught at 20 public schools or in classrooms at six refugee camps starting Monday.

In this article from NEWSok, Zaidoon Khalaf shares his experiences while attempting to reunify with his family Germany.

European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents will hold its 14th International Conference. The aim of the conference is to connect knowledge and evidence in child welfare practice and to stimulate debates and discussions that could transfer sound research findings to practices in child welfare and improve interventions in the future. 

The conference will be held 13-16 September 2016 in Oviedo, Spain.

This media briefing from Oxfam describes the Italian reception system for unaccompanied minors which "has turned out to be inadequate for protecting lone refugee and migrant children and their rights," according to the report.

The Chargé d’Affaires of the Holy See's Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, Msgr. Simon Kassas, urged the Security Council on Tuesday to 'affirm and support families of children who are victimized in armed conflict'.

Global Strategy – Beyond Detention 2014-2019 is a document released by UNHCR, which aims to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees.  

This research examined psychological and background correlates of bullying in adolescent residential care. Young people aged 11–21 (N = 601) from 22 residential institutions in Croatia completed an anonymous self-reported bullying questionnaire, the Basic Empathy Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale and the Big Five Personality Inventory.

The purpose of this paper is to map the current organisation and implementation of children’s services in three regions of Spain, to identify strengths and gaps and to suggest proposals for improvement in line with European recommendations.