This article from the Guardian describes the concerns of care experts in the UK regarding what some consider overuse of "'risk of emotional harm' as a reason for applying to a court for a care order before any harm has happened."

This blog post from the Gap Year Association encourages "gap year counselors and students to thoroughly vet the organizations they choose to partner with around the world."

This study reports on a large quantitative, descriptive study focusing on children in contact with children’s services on a single date in 2015 across the four UK countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales).

This study reports on a large quantitative, descriptive study focusing on children in contact with children’s services on a single date in 2015 in the four UK countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) to provide a potential ‘natural experiment’ for comparing intervention patterns.

An agency in Sussex, UK called Project Abroad has stopped sending volunteers abroad on orphanage placements because of concern about "fake orphans," according to this short video from BBC News.

This study reviews a series of interrelated studies on the development of children residing in institutions (i.e., orphanages) in the Russian Federation or placed with families in the USA and the Russian Federation.

This film from Lumos is about the people who know that there is an alternative to institutional care, and who are working hard to make it happen.

This webinar aims to foster learning and collaboration amongst partners and pathfinding countries in Europe, to capture the experiences, lessons learned, challenges faced, and promising practices in pathfinding countries.

This book presents the stories of youth in care, though not in splendid isolation, but as interactively produced, turn by turn in interviews, and in conversations with other youth.

This article describes the experiences of Muslim children in care in the UK and critically examines how their situation matches the definitions of good practice in agencies and professionals seeking to help them.