According to this Country Fact Sheet focusing Greece, there is no database holding data on children in alternative care in Greece.

This Estonia Country Fact Sheet highlights the transformations made in deinstitutionalization in Estonia since 2004.  By the end of 2015, there were 1,068 children in 38 residential care settings in Estonia.

This fact sheet highlights Bosnia and Herzegovina’s latest developments in Deinstitutionalization.

This fact sheet highlights Austria’s process in transforming institutional care towards community-based and family-based systems.

This short animation tells the story of a young boy and girl forced to flee their homes, and how detention can be avoided in order to complete their migration status.

This study is a snapshot of a multi-country study involving Italy, Peru, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe of how individual characteristics, interpersonal relationships, and the communities in which people live interact with institutional drivers to increase or reduce a child’s risk of violence.

This global review examines past systematic reviews to determine whether parenting interventions help prevent child maltreatment. 

This report documents the life experiences of care leavers in Australia.  

In this article, Eric Rosenthal examines the implications of the report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan Méndez, focused on children deprived of liberty, on the placement of children in institutions and orphanages. 

This country fact sheet highlights the care reforms that Spain has instituted over the past few years. This sheet also provides short facts and the latest developments on children in alternative care in Spain.

A video from UAFA emphasizing the importance of early intervention.

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

This article discusses Bulgaria's challenges since the shut down of its crowded institutions, which housed disabled children.

This fact sheet from Lumos provides a short look at the world wide problem of children in orphanages.

This synthesis report contains findings of a study that conducted research in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries for the purpose of gaining understanding of the nature, extent, and scope of institutionalization and the feasibility of deinstitutionlisation.

This desk review examines the reasons children are being placed in care, evaluates the types of care in the region, and discusses regional efforts towards deinstitutionalisation.

This report is a case study of alternative child care in Indonesia. Research was conducted that found that with an estimate of 8,000 institutional facilities servicing 500,000 children, Indonesia was overly reliant on institutional care.

In the attached document, Lumos reports that 8 million children worldwide are in institutions globally.  

This report shares outcomes to date for a group of 1,292 children and young people with disabilities who have transitioned out of large residential institutions (institutions) into small group homes (SGHs) in the community.

This report, first distributed at the seminar co-hosted by Lumos and USAID on the challenge of institutionalization in Haiti, provides some background information on the effects of institutionalisation as well as the particular situation in Haiti.

This study provides a systematic review of the literature, focusing on the conceptualization and evaluation of continuity. 

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.