The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 came into force in 2009 and introduced the new Permanence Orders. A Permanence Order (PO) allows parental responsibilities and parental rights relating to residence and guidance to pass to the local authority and allow other parental responsibilities and...

India is home to around 31mn out of home care children (OHC) (separated from birth families or at-risk of separation). Most land up in institutional care due to lack of functional family or community-based care systems. Most of them have negative experiences of neglect, trauma, abandonment, abuse, d...

Adoption, half adoption, open adoption, pre-adoption foster care, foster parents with parental authority, regular foster care…. confusing!  They say: foster care is helping a child, adoption is having a child.Or: all foster children have behavioral problems and family contacts are a problematic;...