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The current pandemic situation due to COVID-19 has constrained confinement measures, which changed family routines, leading to adjustments of parental practices. In this context of balance between tension and support, the present study aimed at analyzing the perception of impressive experiences during the confinement in family life in Portugal and Brazil. As part of a broader research, it was applied an online questionnaire with questions about sociodemographic data and an open question focusing on important events in the family life during the lockdown period.

During the last 15 years in Srbia, we have witnessed a significant change in the attitude of parents regarding which disciplinary practices yield results when it comes to forming desirable child behaviours. Today, over 90 per cent of parents agree that violent disciplining is not good for the child. The experience from professional practice and research also confirms its harmfulness. Corporal or psychological punishment harms and humiliates the child, develops mistrust and insecurity, and undesirable behaviours are often repeated.

The purpose of the research is to explore the characteristics and specificity of the well-being of adolescent's on foster care in Serbia in order to improve practice of family-type forms of care and to formulate policy recommendations that are based on research insights. The ultimate purpose of the research is to improve the wellbeing of adolescents in foster care by improving the foster-care system.

The new National Strategy of Family Policy summarizes objectives, indicators and action plans to improve the situation of families in the Czech Republic, ranging from preventive measures promoting healthy parenting to interventions supporting vulnerable or high-risk families.

The link below lists only main goals of the strategy - the governmental approval of the strategy is still pending.

There are two reports as part of this deep dive. A policy brief brings together all the findings from the research. It has been designed to help government to identify the children who should be prioritized in the Bulgaria National Action Plan and to recommend the policy measures that need to be put in place at national, regional and local levels to complement existing policy measures that have been effective in providing positive outcomes for children.

The P.I.P.P.I. Programme – Programme of Intervention for the Prevention of Institutionalization – was launched at the end of 2010 as the result of a collaboration between the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, the Research and Intervention Laboratory in Family Education of the University of Padua, the 10 Italian Cities receiving a share of the fund under Law No. 285/1997, and the social services, as well as the services for the protection of children, such as private social cooperatives, schools, and companies managing the health services of the involved local authorities.

Online Emotional Wellbeing resources. A collaboration, MMM and La Granja aiming to provide parents and families with the resources and tools they need to ensure an emotionally intelligent education as their children grow. These video series will help family members heighten their self-esteem, balance their emotions, communicate with each other, and strengthen family bonds by building trust and questioning perfectionist expectations. Some of the topics that will be covered in the videos:
The Perfect Family Syndrome
Demand vs. excellence.
Emotions – allies or enemies?

The baseline problem and needs analysis for the project ‘Learning from the Margins’ (LEMA) show that marginalised youth in European urban areas display low levels of inclusion and participation in the societal arenas that we know develop the individual and which can also contribute to bringing individuals out of marginalisation. At the same time, it is clear that on the professional level we are more or less checkmate compared to working with precisely the inclusion of the most marginalised young people.

Despite increased research on gender inequality in the academy, few studies report on how it manifests within precarious work in Higher Education (HE), especially amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. This multiple case study will explore 34 academics’ experiences of precarity in 3 universities in London to unravel the challenges for these women using lengthy semi-structured interviews and opportunity and snowball sampling.