There is a global reliance on institutional care for children in both child protection and children in conflict with the law. Knowing that it is a necessary process, how do we engage key stakeholders in the strategic change? In India, while latest legislation, the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 is suppor...

Background: Young children continue to be frequently placed in institutional care throughout the world. This occurs despite wide recognition that institutional care is associated with harm and negative consequences for children’s development (Browne, 2009). According to UN ‘Guidelines for the ...

From a Child’s Rights perspective, the workshop covers  abuse, neglect and abandonment of children with and without special needs who are removed from parents or given a place of safety due to being unaccompanied or refugee children. The use of residential care institutions rather than other for...

The Childonomics research project has developed an instrument that can help reflect on the long term social and economic return of investing in children and families within a given national or sub-national context. The instrument enables consideration of  the different types of costs of different...

Mandatory reporting is the concept whereby particular individuals, often professionals in contact with children, are obliged by law to report knowledge or strong suspicions of situations of child abuse or neglect. Literature, academia and most of the experienced professionals are in agreement with m...

In this plenary the focus would be data collected about the children who were removed from parental care in 2012 in Malta, and others who were considered for removal from parental care during the same period, but who for some reason were not removed. This data about the 49 children will throw light ...

Australia is ahead of most countries in the world in the deinstitutionalisation of protective child care, having closed all its institutions and dramatically reduced the availability of small group residential care. That Australia’s children are now almost exclusively in kinship care and foster ca...

The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children Campaign is a pan-European Campaign is a partnership between five international organisations, Eurochild, FICE Europe, Hope and Homes for Children, the International Foster Care Organisation (IFCO) and the SOS Children’s Villages International. The Opening...