This study aimed to determine whether parents with two generations of involvement in out-of-home care (themselves as children, and their own children) are at increased risk of death by suicide than parents with no involvement or parents with one generation of involvement in out-of-home care.

This chapter will critically examine the difficulties faced by young people who are looked after by local authorities in accessing mental health services and argue, based on findings of recent Serious Case Reviews that there has never been a more dangerous time to be a looked-after child.

This paper outlines key findings from the first comprehensive study of permanence planning in Scotland.

Speaking at the launch of the care crisis review, a large-scale sector-led inquiry into the UK's care system, senior judge Sir Andrew McFarlane remarked that "it is easier to obtain a care order to take a child away from their family, than for the family to get support," according to this article from BBC News.

Recent budget cuts to early childhood and youth services will lead to an increased number of children "falling through the gaps" in care, says the children’s commissioner for England, according to this article from the Guardian.

This article from the BBC shares the findings of recent child protection inquiries, noting that the chances of a child being placed for adoption by the age of five "varies starkly by local authority."

The aim of this chapter is to explore how caregiving arrangements among parents of the recent East European labour migrants in Sweden develop in a transnational setting.

This qualitative study examined disclosure for adult survivors of abandonment. Findings are centred around the experience of disclosure, the process of disclosure specifically exploring the role of half-truths and finally the impact of disclosure on the search for identity and self.

The objective of this study is to identify distinct patterns of care history by applying sequence analysis methods to longitudinal, administrative data.

This study adds to the literature by comparing the association between children's exposure to placement in care and lack of secondary education (i.e. post-compulsory education after age 16) across three Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.