Kinship care refers to the care provided by relatives or close members of the child’s social network when the child is unable to live at home with their parents and is the preferred placement option within the Australian child protection system. Of the 43,399 children in out of home care in Austra...

 Socio-cultural Landscape and Foster Care in India Zubair Meenai[1] Indian society is tremendously multifaceted and complex.  There are multiple ethnic, regional, economic, religious and caste groups across the Indian nation that is also infused with inter-sectionality of gender, rural-urban a...

Deinstitutionalization in Bulgaria is a sustainable governmental policy since 2010 with the adoption of a strategic document, which explicitly states the will of the Bulgarian government to transform the institutional care for children into a public care. Over the last seven years foster care in Bu...

In 2009, the UN General Assembly welcomed the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (A/RES/64/142). The Guidelines provide authoritative guidance on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international standards relevant to children’s ...