The European Recommendations on the implementation of a child rights-based approach for care professionals working with and for children highlights the steps to be undertaken to develop a child care service workforce capable of applying a child rights-based approach to their work.

This paper is an attempt at rethinking the systemic problems facing the funding and commissioning of care services and placements for children in need of care and adoption, across ALL types and specialisms of placement, from kinship care, through foster care, to residential care and adoption.

This document summarizes the content of the 6-7 October 2016 Network Meeting of National Statistical Offices. The event comprised of a number of presentations on topics related to the SDGs and data on children in alternative care. 

This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme. 

A summary of the International Alternative Care Conference 2016 via Storify.

Irish government urged to take in unaccompanied children from Calais refugee camps.

The Guardian reports that more than 1,000 children remain in Calais camps.  The report says that children are living in shipping containers with inadequate food, water and supplies.

Hammersmith and Fulham, England stands at the forefront of efforts to bring Calais refugees to the UK.

The current study makes analyses of the national strategy for deinstitutionalization of children and concludes on important recommendations concerning national policy development. 

New parliamentary bill will help ensure the protection of unaccompanied refugee minors who enter Italy.