Providing educative help at home means that professionals have to enter into the intimacy of families and share daily tasks often for a long time. Family support workers spend many hours alongside parents, helping them with their domestic and parenting tasks. 

On 22 April, BCN Netherlands organized a seminar on gatekeeping in Utrecht, Netherlands. The goal of the yearly event was to share the theoretical framework, principles and practice, and experiences on gatekeeping with a broad audience

COFACE, the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union, in cooperation with the UN Focal Point on the Family (Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs), is organising an international c

 This paper reports findings from an ethnographic study in which the researcher notes and gathers personal accounts relating to material and non-material exchanges between professionals and parents.

Over a week ago, an unaccompanied eight year-old boy was placed on a plane to Paris from Comoros, an island nation off the coast of southeastern Africa, and was detained at the airport in Paris for more than a week when officials discovered he had false travel documents, according to this article from the Guardian. 

The City of Gothenburg initiative Social Days 2016 presents "A Good Start in Life - The importance of early universal interventions when creating a good start in life for our children."

The 31st World Tourism Network on Child Protection meeting was focused on the role and initiatives of the private sector to fight Child Exploitation in tourism. 

A woman flew from Istanbul to Paris with an infant girl hidden inside her hand luggage, Air France has said.

Opening Doors for Europe’s Children held a campaign roundtable on migrant children at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 1 March 2016. The conclusion from this event is that “migrant and refugee children have the same rights as other children, and their institutionalisation is incompatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).” 

SOS Villages d’Enfants France et la CNAPE, en partenariat avec le CNFPT – INSET d’Angers et le Défenseur des droits, organisent 5 formations en mars et juin 2016 sur le thème : « Les droits de l’enfant accueilli en protection de l’enfance : de la théorie à la pratique! », dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre du projet européen Former les professionnels de la prise en charge alternative