This document summarizes the content of the 6-7 October 2016 Network Meeting of National Statistical Offices. The event comprised of a number of presentations on topics related to the SDGs and data on children in alternative care. 

This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme. 

A summary of the International Alternative Care Conference 2016 via Storify.

Irish government urged to take in unaccompanied children from Calais refugee camps.

The Guardian reports that more than 1,000 children remain in Calais camps.  The report says that children are living in shipping containers with inadequate food, water and supplies.

Hammersmith and Fulham, England stands at the forefront of efforts to bring Calais refugees to the UK.

The current study makes analyses of the national strategy for deinstitutionalization of children and concludes on important recommendations concerning national policy development. 

New parliamentary bill will help ensure the protection of unaccompanied refugee minors who enter Italy.

Per this article from the BBC, Syrian refugee children have been making clothes for British shoppers. 

A closer look at tends to be one of the more contentious issues surrounding the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, child migrants.