Four-year inquiry found widespread abuse in Northern Ireland child care homes.

In this issue of ODR, Maxim Tucker details the deinstitutionalization challenges facing Ukraine

Scotland sees a marked increase of children in temporary housing over last year.

USA TODAY reports Russia is willing to open up discussions with the United States regarding the possibility of lifting its four-year old adoption ban.

On January 18, 2017, Neelam Fida, Child Protection Project Manager at Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), one of Keeping Chidren Safe's full Member will present a webinar on "child safeguarding within Faith-Based Organisations". 

The attached study compared the care environments of family-based care and institutional care to determine if care environment contributed to differences in sexual behavior and/or sexual exploitation of orphaned and separated adolescents.

The topic of this webinar is child and youth participation in monitoring and evaluation. This video provides a brief context of child participation and participatory methods. 

In this video from The Dr. Phil Show, Dr. Phil discusses the foster care crisis in the U.S. and the negative impact over-reliance on foster care can have on children and families.

This article from Stahili discusses the importance of adding voluntourism in orphanages to the UN Year of Sustainable Tourism agenda.

This report evaluates UNICEF's child protection systems building approach in Myanmar, including the review methodology, findings, conclusions and lessons learned, as well as recommendations for the future.