Changing the Way We Care’s “Care System Strengthening Learning Synthesis: Evaluation Summary” distills lessons from care reform efforts in four countries, examining how change happened across laws, workforce, financing, monitoring, and services. It finds that evidence-based advocacy, strong government ownership, collaboration, and capacity-building were central to driving and sustaining reform across diverse contexts.

This article examines how care leavers navigate their relationships with biological mothers and fathers. It is based on a qualitative study from Austria, which focused on social networks and family relationships of 18-to 27-year-old care-experienced youth.

This article reports that the Czech Republic has passed a law, signed in July 2025 and coming into effect on 1 January 2026, explicitly prohibiting all corporal punishment of children in every setting — home, school, day care, alternative care and

The article highlights how Moldova has dramatically reduced the number of children in institutional care from around 17,000 to just 700, with an ambitious goal of closing all orphanage‑style institutions by 2027.

CELCIS’ October 2025 webinar explored recent developments in residential child care across Scotland, featuring insights on nurture-based practice, shifts in inspection approaches aligned with The Promise, and staff development through reflective practice. Speakers highlighted how new care models, regulatory changes, and whole-system approaches are strengthening practice and improving outcomes for children and young people.

This article reports a 45% increase in the number of children in England waiting for adoption since 2022, while the number of approved adopters has fallen by around 42%.

This article describes how the Ukrainian government is advancing a draft law on housing policy (Draft Law No. 12377), which guarantees that orphans and children deprived of parental care will receive temporary or social housing within one month of

This Human Rights Watch (HRW) article reports that France is committing serious, systematic violations of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children, citing a UN body’s findings that flawed age‑assessment processes leave many children misclassif

This article from CELCIS explores the Scottish Government’s consultation on creating a universal definition of “care experience”, advocating for language and policy that reflect diverse cultural contexts—including those of people from the Global S

On October 23, 2025, the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative hosted a webinar exploring Kafaalah—a long-standing childcare practice in Muslim communities that has been observed for more than 1,400 years.