This monograph contains nine chapters that review and discuss the empirical literature on the development of children who have been deprived of their permanent parents

This monograph reviews literature pertaining to children without permanent parents.

This report reviews the faltering progress made in childcare reform across Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union over the 15 years since the ‘orphanages’ of Romania were revealed to the world.

This briefing paper provides general background on the development of UK Government policies to support care leavers, and existing support available in key areas such as: social services; housing; education and training; health services; and the social security system.

This meta-analysis synthesized findings from existing evaluations to examine whether and to what extent Family Treatment Drug Courts (FTDCs) participants achieved better reunification and safety outcomes than non-participants.

The aim of the article is to describe the system of the substitute family care in the Czech Republic and to introduce a foster care as one of the institutes of the substitute family care.

In this article trajectories of child and youth transitions from institutional care are discussed.

The objective of  this article is to analyze the phenomenon of social risk families and its trends in Lithuania.

Utilizing case examples, this discussion paper examines foster care decisions that disrupt important child-caregiver relationships.

This paper discusses two key strategies detailing how “relationship-focused” and “trauma-informed” intervention practices, which form the basis of an Australian therapeutic program called Treatment and Care for Kids (TrACK), made a difference in the lives of highly traumatised children.