This document summarizes the content of the 6-7 October 2016 Network Meeting of National Statistical Offices. The event comprised of a number of presentations on topics related to the SDGs and data on children in alternative care. 

This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme. 

New parliamentary bill will help ensure the protection of unaccompanied refugee minors who enter Italy.

This study attempts to understand the feelings and bonds of the often complex life situations of being an internationally adopted child.

Arab Today reports over 20,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed the sea to Italy.

Within the context of kinship care, the main objectives of this work are to study the characteristics of contact between foster children and their birth parents, and their relationship with key variables of fostering, the children and their kinship caregivers.

According to this article from the Voice of America, migrant children in Greece will begin school next week.  The Greek Education Minister states that 1,500 children will be taught at 20 public schools or in classrooms at six refugee camps starting Monday.

In this article from NEWSok, Zaidoon Khalaf shares his experiences while attempting to reunify with his family Germany.

European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents will hold its 14th International Conference. The aim of the conference is to connect knowledge and evidence in child welfare practice and to stimulate debates and discussions that could transfer sound research findings to practices in child welfare and improve interventions in the future. 

The conference will be held 13-16 September 2016 in Oviedo, Spain.

This media briefing from Oxfam describes the Italian reception system for unaccompanied minors which "has turned out to be inadequate for protecting lone refugee and migrant children and their rights," according to the report.