Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of the progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child.  The countries are:  Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.

This booklet is based on a recent internal desk review of Save the Children’s and partners’ work against physical and humiliating punishment of children, commissioned by Save the Children Sweden. It aims to present best practices, to show what methods have worked around the world, and to spread knowledge about results achieved and lessons learned when it comes to law reform and positive discipline.  

This review was established to examine the reasons for, and how best to tackle, the over representation of children in care, or with experience of care, in the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

This report from Save the Children outlines the rapid development that takes place in the brain in the early years of life and the crucial role that caregivers play in supporting this development. 

This article presents an overview of the Polish system of foster welfare, its regulations by law and directions for further transformation. 

La question spécifique de l’entourage familial des enfants placés dans le cadre de la protection de l’enfance apparaît tout particulièrement complexe et intéressante. Les questions relatives aux trajectoires individuelles des membres de l’entourage familial des enfants placés dans le cadre de la protection de l’enfance sont rarement pas analysées et méritent une attention particulière. 

25 experts ont accepté de partager le fruit de leur réflexion afin de questionner l’effectivité des droits des enfants en France, en 2015. La seule réflexion qui doit guider pouvoirs publics comme société civile est finalement bien celle qui conduit à mesurer les écarts entre les droits formels et les droits réels des enfants

This report describes the situation and experience of families during the economic crisis and examines how family-focused policies have changed since 2010 in the European Union.

A group of activists who were formerly raised in Romania's communist-era orphanages have created an association called Federeii. The group is pushing Romanian authorities to recognize and apologize for a variety of abuses committed against an estimated 500,000 children in the country's orphanages that existed before the end of the Cold War. The abuse and neglect, including physical and sexual abuse, are discussed in the article. 

Professor Robbie Gilligan discusses a “policy blind spot” in Ireland resulting from a lack of data collection on the education of children in the care system, including the percentage of those children who go on to university. Ireland recently launched a new National Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education 2015-2019 to improve access to education for disadvantaged groups, but the new plan is silent on the educational needs for children in care.