This document is the first report from a study commissioned by Barnardo’s Scotland. The study explores experiences, needs and outcomes for children and young people in Scotland who are (or have been) looked after at home (ie subject to a home supervision requirement or order). 

This report investigates the current experience of siblings in the care system in the UK and whether some placement types are more likely than others to enable siblings to be 
raised together.

This report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world.

Barn is a magazine about children’s rights published by Save the Children Sweden with four issues per year. This issue is focused on the role of fathers in children’s wellbeing and development.

This Human Rights Watch report gives a detailed overview of the situation faced by children with disabilities in orphanages in Russia.

There has been a significant growth in the use of formal kinship care in the UK and Ireland in the last 20 years. The paper charts some of the reasons for the 'organic growth' of kinship care and the multiple dynamics that have shaped this.

This article reviews the history and development of out-of-home care services in Germany and the Netherlands comparing trends and numbers.

The aim of this article is to examine unaccompanied minors’ experiences of leaving care in Sweden, and to explore the experience in relation to perceptions about ethnicity and culture within a transnational space.

This document is a statistical first release issued by the Department for Education in England that provides national and local authority level information on the outcomes for children who have been looked after continuously for at least 12 months at 31 March 2013. Outcomes reported include educational attainment, special educational needs (SEN), health and wellbeing, offending, substance misuse and exclusions from school.

Webinar co-hosted by Better Care Network and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance on Deinstitutionalizing the Alternative Care System for Children: The implications for the social service workforce with learning from Rwanda and Moldova.