Findings from a four-nation study on children in care indicate that Northern Ireland has far fewer children in foster or residential care than do England, Scotland and Wales, according to this article from the Guardian.

This article looks at the support adoptive families need in the crucial first stages of placement and the health visitor's role in the process.

The present study is the first to examine reunification rates and characteristics associated with reunification decisions in Flemish short-term foster care.

This study sought to investigate the emotional facet of self–esteem (SE) in 46 adult survivors of institutional childhood maltreatment (IM) in foster care settings provided by the City of Vienna.

This article summarizes the situation of unaccompanied child (UAC) refugees in Greece in 2017/2018.

This article summarizes the situation of unaccompanied child (UAC) refugees in Greece in 2017/2018.

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.