This article is written as part of the FORUM project (FOR Unaccompanied Minors: transfer of knowledge for professionals to increase foster care), an EU funded project which sought to enhance the capacity of professionals to provide quality foster care for unaccompanied migrant children, primarily through the transfer of knowledge. The article aims to contribute to this transfer of knowledge by bringing together literature which is of relevance to professionals developing or enhancing foster care services for unaccompanied migrant children.

This report from the German Youth Institute (Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V., DJI) assesses the adoption system in the Netherlands.

This research explores how decision-making heuristics are used by practitioners to determine which foster family is the best fit for a child.

The aim of this study was to examine changes in parental empowerment and child behavioural problems during a period of youth care and how changes are related to the kind of services provided.

For this study, ten multilevel meta-analyses were performed to examine factors that can affect instability of foster care placement.

The present study describes how two youth care organizations in the Netherlands implemented group climate monitoring instruments for children as part of the broader ‘You Matter!’ project, and aims to answer the question how these monitoring instruments can help to improve group climate when routinely embedded in daily care.

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

On 7 November the leading liberal party in the Netherlands, the VVD (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie), released a white paper proposal (‘initiatiefnota’) on measures to combat orphanage tourism.

In the present exploratory study 69 case-files of children referred to a Dutch national center for residential youth care for children with intellectual disabilities (ID) were analyzed to assess the prevalence and associations of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

The present study is the first to examine reunification rates and characteristics associated with reunification decisions in Flemish short-term foster care.