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 s...

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 ...

The Opening Doors Campaign is a pan-European Campaign running in 16 European countries advocating for the strengthening of families and the end of institutional care. The Campaign has been running since 2013, mainly in Central and Eastern European countries and during its 2nd Phase it has expanded i...