Lumos is looking to recruit an experienced professional for the position of Consultant to the Deinstitutionalization (DI) Unit in Ukraine. 

Save the Children is seeking a candidate with proven management skills for the position of Deputy Head of Child Protection in its Farringdon, London U.K. office.

Save the Children is seeking a Child Protection Adviser to support country programmes in designing and implementing high quality programming to protect children and support their families.

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

This news article from The Moscow Times shares the stories and lessons learned by Russian families who experienced the adoption process.  

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.

This paper analyzes the concluding sections of assessment reports on applicants for intercountry adoption in Sweden to answer the following question: what must be said about an individual or a couple in order for her/them to be seen as a suitable adoptive parent?

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.

Establishing the context of this study of adoptive parenthood and open adoption, MacDonald describes the legal, policy, and social frameworks that shape the experience of adoptive parenthood. The role of adoption in child welfare policy is identified, specifically in the UK and USA where it provides permanence for significant numbers of children in State care.

This report from Research in Practice examines the wellbeing of children in care in the UK and the approaches to measuring wellbeing.