In this article from the Guardian, Rosie Lewis, a foster parent and adoptive parent, responds to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement last week in support of new laws tipping the balance in favor of adoption.

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

A recent independent review, chaired by Lord Laming of the UK, has found that half of children in the criminal justice system in the UK have been in care at some point. 

Providing educative help at home means that professionals have to enter into the intimacy of families and share daily tasks often for a long time. Family support workers spend many hours alongside parents, helping them with their domestic and parenting tasks. 

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

This paper discusses how Norway is in a position where it needs to balance its interests in immigration control with its obligations under international human rights law to protect the rights and liberties of asylum-seeking children. This document emphasizes the importance of protecting vulnerable children.  In general this paper analyzes the ways that Norway acknowledges and protects the vulnerability of asylum seeking children. It also discusses the jurisprudence in place in relationship to vulnerable asylum-seeking children.   

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the government’s plans to pass new laws to encourage adoption of children in care, among other things, “even when that means overriding family ties", he wrote.

This country care review includes the Concluding Observations for the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

This article from the Pew Research Center presents statistics on the number of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Europe, and the growth in child migration in the past few years.

On 10-11 May 2016 in Vienna, Austria, Child Protection Hub for South East Europe organises a regional Policy Forum on Decentralisation of Social Services.