This report explores options for young people aging out of residential care (“care leavers”) and the potential challenges and costs of effective implementation of those options.

This article from Deutsche Welle (DW) depicts the situation that many mothers in Eastern Europe face as they leave their children behind to find work abroad and support their families financially.

Eurochild is holding its 11th Annual Conference, 'Children First: Better Public Spending for Better Outcomes for Children and Families' in Bucharest, 26-28 November 2014

Save the Children UK is looking to hire a Deputy Head of Child Protection on a Fixed term contract until mid-January 2016

In November 2014 a two-day international conference on children’s rights will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, to herald the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

This BBC article highlights the issues of peope with disabilities in Greece, especially children in state-run homes, who are often stigmatized and can struggle to get the support they need.

This report presents a summary of progress in Lumos’ first three country demonstration programmes – the Republic of Moldova, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. 

On 10 September 2014, UNICEF and the Permanent Mission of Bulgaria co-hosted a high level Lunchtime Discussion on The right of children below three years to live in a caring and supportive family environment: examples from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.The discussion took place on the margins of the September meeting of the UNICEF Executive Board and brought together over 80 participants, including members of the UNICEF Executive Board, representatives of the Permanent Missions to the UN from the CEE/CIS region, international organizations, NGOs, high level UNICEF and National Committee staff. Representatives from Croatia presented on preventing institutionalization of children.

 Using the accumulated wisdom of a select group of accomplished managers, academics and policy makers in social work and social care, this paper retrospectively reviews the evolution of Family Support within the Irish context and distils the core characteristics of Family Support practice and service delivery. 

This report gives an overview of implemented activities in the process of deinstitutionalization, identifying the main obstacles, effects, and achieved results. The overall objective of the report is to achieve greater understanding of the progress and shortcomings of the process of deinstitutionalization and transformation of social protection in Serbia, and to analyze relevant policies that will provide input for the creation of new measures for further support of the reform process of social protection in Serbia.