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Growing up in institutional care violates children’s rights. Over 80 years of international research has demonstrated that it can severely harm children’s physical and cognitive ...

The EU must prioritise social inclusion in its COVID-19 Recovery - Urgent call for targets and safeguards for investments in social inclusion and the shift ...

Thousands of children in Ukraine with disabilities, developmental disorders, illnesses, or from disadvantaged social backgrounds are deprived of their human rights and grow up without ...

Lumos calls on the Portuguese EU Presidency to recognise the risk of trafficking for children that are in institutional care, including the role of the ...

This paper outlines how children with disabilities end up in institutional care and explains how growing up in an institution is particularly harmful to this ...

Following the EU’s acknowledgement of the harm caused by institutionalisation and its commitment to supporting the shift from institutional to family and community-based care, Lumos ...

This briefing sets out the key learning and recommendations from the East London Transforming Care Project.

Millions of children around the world live in institutions – including so-called “orphanages”, residential special schools and reception centres – that expose them to a ...

By tackling some of the causes of family separation that cast a shadow over children’s lives – poverty, abuse, violence, and discrimination – we work ...

The priorities set by the German Government ahead of its Presidency term include a wide range of activities which could positively impact the EU’s role ...

Three major new papers published in the Lancet with Lumos’ support have shed new light on the situation of children living in institutions globally and, ...