The photo released this week of a Salvadorian father and his toddler daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande is a sharp reminder of the ...

After two years spent transforming care services in post-revolution Romania, in the mid-90s I resumed working in family and community services for a local authority ...

Lumos has joined #VoteforChildren, a coalition campaign working to ensure that children’s issues stay on top of the agenda for the European elections in May ...

Did you know that 80% of children in orphanages actually have at least one living parent? Or that children living in institutions are at an ...

In February 2019, Lumos Youth Advocates attended the Zero Conference in Vienna, which this year focused on independent living and political participation.

In 2018, Lumos Youth Advocates convened in London for their annual Youth Forum meeting. Every year, Lumos, the children's charity founded by J.K. Rowling, provides ...

It’s hard to believe there are people in the world who deliberately recruit children into orphanages in order to make money. Yet running an orphanage ...

Today, Lumos and the British Embassy in Panama brought together global and regional child protection experts to discuss strategies to tackle the institutionalisation of children ...

How far has the world really moved on since Dickens wrote Oliver Twist’s tale? And do Dickensian orphanages still exist elsewhere?

"It was 2010, I was just finishing my A levels and had two months before starting university. I knew I wanted to go away and ...