On 10-11 May 2016 in Vienna, Austria, Child Protection Hub for South East Europe organises a regional Policy Forum on Decentralisation of Social Services.

In this video, a boy in a shelter in Athens, Greece shares his story of migration to Europe and the trials and challenges he has endured.

In this piece for the Huffington Post Blog, Phil Smith, an adoptive father, writes about his and his wife’s experience with a program Concurrent Planning, run by a specialist team in London, UK. 

This article tests how out-of-home placement of children in Denmark affects men's labor market attachment, and in so doing the authors provide a novel parallel to existing research on how fatherhood affects men, which focuses almost exclusively on a child's arrival. 

This study used a secondary analysis of data from 2003 to 2013 to better understand the situation of children temporarily abandoned in Romania. It looked at data for children aged 0-3 years who were abandoned in different hospital units or institutionalized in public orphanages or public and private foster care institutions. 

This article from the Times of Malta features the story of two foster parents in Malta. 

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world was shocked to learn that countless children were being held in unsanitary and hazardous conditions within Romanian orphanages.  This video tells of Izidor Ruckel’s experience while growing up in a Romanian orphanage, along with his eventual immigration to the U.S. where he was adopted by a family from California.

Under the project United Voices for Children, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperatio

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

This article from Reuters examines the response of Norway and other Scandinavian countries to the arrival of asylum-seeking girls under the age of 16 who are married, and how these girls are cared for and protected in the asylum systems.