Examines the challenges posed in monitoring and ensuring child protection in informal and formal fostering in post-conflict areas.

A great change is coming over childhood in the world’s richest countries. Today’s rising generation is the first in which a majority is spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. This Report Card discusses the opportunities and risks involved in the child care transition, and proposes internationally applicable benchmarks for early childhood care and education.

Explores causal relationship between increased international adoption and increase in institutional care of children in Europe.

These standards were drafted as part of a reform initiative programme in Ghana to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort

Update on all recent seminars and activities relevant to child welfare reform and deinstitutionalization in Russia

International Social Service’s first segment of the series addresses the historical background and the principles and objectives of the Guidelines

A comparative study on the ethical responsibility of receiving countries of intercountry adoption.

Provides analysis on the implementation and outcomes of child abandonment prevention and orphan care programming in Bolivia.

The first tool in the Keeping Children Safe Toolkit which explains what the basic standards should be for all organisations across the world working with and for children directly and indirectly

The second tool in the Keeping Children Safe Toolkit which is a resource pack that provides guidance and activities to organisations ing meeting established standards