Across Ukraine, families are living with daily uncertainty. Freezing temperatures, power cuts, and ongoing bombardment place a huge strain on parents and caregivers, as well as on frontline responders.

For at least the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been seen as a possible answer to how to make public services more efficient.

This study examines the presence of compassion fatigue among foster and kinship carers in the United Kingdom and explores factors associated with it using survey data from 180 caregivers. Findings indicate that carers experience higher levels of compassion fatigue than helping professionals, with greater fatigue linked to lower parenting satisfaction, attachment avoidance, and unmet expectations of social support, highlighting important implications for social and clinical support systems.

The Government of Malta, through the Ministry for Social Policy and Children's Rights, is close to launching a formal After-Care Policy to support young people leaving residential alternative care, aiming to offer them stability, opportunities, an

As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears its fourth year, thousands of children have been orphaned, wounded, displaced, or forced into adult roles, with their lives unfolding in hospitals, temporary homes, and courtrooms far from the front lines.

The blog describes a visit to a Swedish Family Centre, where health, education, and social support services for families with young children are co-located under one roof to provide early, preventative, and relationship-based support.

This UNICEF article examines how violent discipline, both physical and psychological, remains widespread across Europe and Central Asia, often occurring in homes or care settings behind closed doors despite legal bans and policy commitments in man

The article reports that a new batch of case reports from child protection court proceedings in Ireland reveals “significant and serious systemic issues” in the country’s care system, according to the Children’s Rights Alliance, which welcomed the

The Irish Times reports that vulnerable children in Ireland’s care system are spending up to three years in “unregulated” emergency accommodation because of severe shortages in suitable, regulated placements.

The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found that hundreds of vulnerable children in England’s care were placed for months in “illegal” homes, settings not registered with the national regulator Ofsted, due to severe shortages