The 2017 country factsheets provide an update on the status of child protection and care reforms from 16 European countries that are the focus of Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign in Phase II. 

This study explored whether trust in caregiver support and communication about experiences with primary caregivers, are associated with Child Welfare System (CWS) youngsters’ depressive symptoms and/or self-harm.

The Netherlands' health minister Hugo de Jonge has proposed a plan to allow foster youth to stay in care until the age of 21, extending it from the current maximum age of 18, according to this article from DutchNews.nl. 

This article, in Dutch, features an interview with Patricia Nieuwenhuizen of Better Care Network Netherlands on the campaign to stop orphanage tourism.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist in Geneva, Switzerland.

The present study examined the effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing (FGC) in child welfare in the Netherlands.

This paper presents the results of a national survey describing Maternal and child protection services (“PMI”) home visitation services and their local implantation in France.

Through a qualitative survey, this study aimed at evaluating the effect of the implementation of the French Ministry of Health's PRADO program over the Maternal and child protection services (“PMI”) structure and home visitation intervention.

This article presents an overview of the few studies carried out so far in the European residential institutions, including children’s homes, over the years 1940–2011 in the UK, Germany, Romania, and Poland.

This article describes what could be learned from a project focused on monitoring the living group climate in a residential youth care service in Flanders, Belgium.