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This report provides a general background to the demographic makeup of the population of unaccompanied minors who have migrated to Sweden, including an examination of their educational and employment characteristics. The report is part of the work of the “Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden” project, funded by the European Refugee Fund. The report looks at the whole population of unaccompanied minors who were registered in Sweden from 2003 to 2012, analyzing the demographic data of this group (age, sex, country of origin, municipality in Sweden in which they now live…
The manual, What Works in Tackling Child Abuse and Neglect?, is the main outcome of the European Commission Daphne III programme, involving regional exchanges and research to bring together knowledge on what works in tackling child abuse. Five country reports (Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden, and the Netherlands) were developed reviewing research findings and a comprehensive report compiled about strategies, measurements, and management of tackling the whole range of child abuse and neglect, from prevention to treatment. A study compiling practice-based knowledge on tackling…
The YiPPEE research project, which constitutes the first comparative study of young people who have been in state care as children and their post-compulsory education, was undertaken by a team of cross-national researchers. The overall aim of the project was to investigate educational pathways after the end of compulsory schooling among young men and women who have been in public care in European countries as children, and to consider how their opportunities to access further and higher education might be improved.