The aim of the article is to describe and discuss how issues related to schooling and educational achievement are recognized and addressed in social services case files for children and young people placed in out-of-home care (OHC) in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

The current study from the Infant Mental Health Journal addressed whether two institution‐wide interventions in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, that increased caregiver sensitivity (Training Only: TO) or both caregiver sensitivity and consistency (Training plus Structural Changes: T+SC) promoted better socioemotional and cognitive development than did a No Intervention (NoI) institution during the first year of life for children who were placed soon after birth.

The aim of this webinar is to present the main research results of the study “Trafficking along migration routes to Europe: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Asylum and Anti-Trafficking”, with a special focus on unaccompanied and separated children travelling to Europe along the Western Balkans route.

The topic of interest in this paper is the relationship between children who live in kinship care and their birth parents – through childhood and adulthood.

The main goals of this study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice were to determine the incidence of preadoption breakdown in Portugal, describe preadoptive parents’ reasons for ending placement, compare intact/disrupted placements, and identify adoption disruption risk and protective factors.

An investigation into an “orphanage of terror” in the north of Romania was launched this week by Romanian prosecutors, according to this article from South China Morning Post.

This study focuses on workers’ rationales in placement decisions in child abuse cases in the Netherlands.

The study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice investigated whether sibling relationships influenced the outcomes of a sample of adoptive placements in England and Wales that had broken down postorder or were in crisis.

By commissioning a progress evaluation, European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) would like to assess the progress made towards achieving outcomes and impact of the Thematic Fund across the various interventions of its Thematic Fund, in the period 2016-2018.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.