This study tested the capacity to perceive visual expressions of emotion, and to use those expressions as guides to social decisions, in three groups of 8- to 10-year-old Romanian children: children abandoned to institutions then randomly assigned to remain in ‘care as usual’ (institutional care); children abandoned to institutions then randomly assigned to a foster care intervention; and community children who had never been institutionalized. 

This briefing outlines what current research tells us about the nature of peer-on-peer abuse, and considers what this might mean for building a response. 

According to this report from Lumos, in 2010 there were more than 6,700 children living in institutions in Bulgaria. 

This study examines the consequences of the affective and educative nature of Romanian parents’ migration related to their children.

Using data collected from a nationally-representative household survey conducted in Moldova between September 2011 and February 2012, this paper analyses the psychosocial health outcomes of children of migrant parents by comparing them with children without migrant parents (n = 1979).

The Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice has developed this flyer, along with ECPAT Netherlands, Better Care Network Netherlands and Terre des Hommes Netherlands, to motivate foreign organizations working with children to ask for a Certificate of Conduct when recruiting Dutch volunteers or employees.

The current review collates research and policy regarding use of residential schools for children and young people with intellectual disabilities in the UK and transition from these settings to adult services.

This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children.  All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.

This paper systematically reviews surveys of kinship carers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to identify messages for policy and practice about the characteristics and support needs of kinship care families.

In this article, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the critical brain development that happens in the first year of a baby’s life, and the impact that growing up in poverty has on that cognitive development.