Quasiment invisibles parmi les milliers de réfugiés qui arrivent jour après jour en Europe dans l’espoir d’y trouver la sécurité et une vie meilleure, les enfants qui arrivent sans parents ou sans aucun autre adulte pour les accompagner forment un groupe spécial – les mineurs non accompagnés – dont chaque membre a une histoire particulière et besoin d’une aide spécifique. Nous vous présentons quelques-uns d’entre eux.

This article tells the story of Yahya, a young man who escaped an abusive father in rural Gambia and underwent a harrowing journey through Northern Africa, eventually arriving in Sicily in 2013. 

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

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

En septembre, l’UNICEF a confirmé que plus d’un demi-million de personnes avaient traversé la Méditerranée vers l’Europe depuis le début de l’année 2015, les enfants représentant un cinquième de cette population en migration. Sur l’île grecque de Lesbos, deux enfants syriens arrivés avec d’autres membres de leur famille illustrent bien l’espoir et le désespoir à l’origine de ce voyage long et incertain. 

This study from Lumos provides an analysis of a survey administered to temporary foster carers in June 2015 in seven regions of the Czech Republic to address negative perceptions of foster carers and to determine whether public criticisms were founded.

To better understand the situation of children in institutional care in Greece, Roots Research Centre, the national coordinator of Opening Doors for Europe's Children, conducted the first nation-wide mapping of institutional and residential care in Greece. The study revealed "a patchwork" of public and private institutions and residential care facilities with little or no oversight of quality and no monitoring of the numbers of children and what happens to them. 

This presentation was given by Beth Bradford at the ISPCAN European Conference in September 2015.

This presentation was given at the ISPCAN Conference in Bucharest, Romania in September 2015. The presentation reviews similarities and differences in national care reform efforts in the Eastern Europe region, highlights the main care-related issues in the region 25 years ago, describes the reforms and improvements made in the region as well as the challenges and responses to reforms, and provides recommendations for the way forward.

This post on the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance blog, by Stela Grigoras from Partnership for Every Child, Moldova, and Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, provides an overview of the situation of children's care in Moldova and ways that community level workers are engaged in helping to reform the care system.