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.

This paper adopts a life course perspective to explore well‐being amongst youth (18–25 years) who migrated as children to the UK and France.

This article from the Guardian describes the increasing fears of EU citizens living in the UK and providing full-time care to family members, who worry that they may be deemed "illegal migrants" and forced to leave the UK and their families.

This study aimed to determine whether parents with two generations of involvement in out-of-home care (themselves as children, and their own children) are at increased risk of death by suicide than parents with no involvement or parents with one generation of involvement in out-of-home care.

The government of Malta has unveiled its final draft of the new Children’s Protection Act, according to this article from the Times of Malta.