This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Brin

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards.

Child abuse is typically considered to be the most severe form of early adversity to which children or adolescents can be subjected. Maltreated young people see

This work fills major gaps in knowledge about residential care of children and is sure to inform ongoing debates within and between nations about the appropriat

For centuries, residential child and youth care systems worldwide have provided homes for vulnerable children and adolescents. The implementation of children's