This guide represents a methodological support that describes the procedures for the provision, organization and operation of the Family Support Service.

This guide is designed for social workers employed in the social services addressed to families and children in Moldova. In this version, the case management methodology focuses on family strengthening and the development of family’s competences, with the ultimate aim of achieving every child’s well-being. 

Young unaccompanied asylum seekers have been portrayed as vulnerable, resilient or both. Those granted residency in Europe are offered support by health and social care systems, but once they leave the care system to make independent lives, what part can these services play?

This year’s lecture will see academics and research participants discuss how they have worked together using theatre practices to explore care experience.

The Childonomics project has developed an instrument that can help to reflect on the long-term social and economic return of investing in children and families.

The Verbatim Formula is an applied performance research project which is currently working with looked after children and young people. 

Lumos "will help implement the reform of orphanages in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region under a pilot project, according to the Ukrainian media company NewWest Media."

This article, with accompanying short video documentary, from the New York Times tells an in-depth and harrowing story of an amateur historian, Catherine Corless, seeking to learn about the history of a "mother and baby home" run by Bon Secours nuns in the town of Tuam, Ireland, and the story of mistreatment, poor conditions, trafficking, and unmarked graves she uncovered. 

This video from the BBC shares stories from some mixed racial, ethnic, and religious foster care families. 

This video from the BBC tells the story of Tommy, an 81 year-old man who grew up in the Quarriers care home in Renfrewshire, Scotland and suffered incredible abuse at the hands of his carers for over a decade.