This paper offers strategic guidelines to improve alternative care for children younger than six years of age, who are under protective measures.

This overview document provides a brief update on child care reform in Rwanda.

This paper reviews the literature on foster care and explains the issues that foster children in Canada experience.

The aim of this study was to explore the experience of consultation in three residential childcare settings in the UK.

This post on the Missions Dilemma website features an article and 30 minute documentary film on the harmful impact of institutionalization on children.

This report aims to provide the basis for an agenda to improve university attendance among care leavers in Australia by highlighting the nature and extent of the problem, and suggesting practical solutions within both the education and community service sectors.

In this article, the author, David Graham, draws comparisons between the experiences and needs of youth transitioning out of care in the UK and those of individuals who are formerly incarcerated reintegrating into society.

This Call for Change from the ‘SAFe’ Campaign in Uganda provides an overview of the situation of orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda, highlights key concerns related to this situation, and outlines ways forward for strengthening families.

This study has, through an immense literature review analysis explored: the role of OVC care institutions; policy environment of care and protection of OVCs; care of OVCs in institutional care in both South Africa and Botswana; and the experiences of OVCs in care institutions.

This report examines and analyses policies and provision for family support and parenting support based on general literature searches and evidence gathered from 33 UNICEF national offices and detailed case studies of nine countries.