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Lifelong Links

Detailed searches are carried out to identify extended family for children in care.

International Focus: Democratic nursery, Germany

The first kindergarten was established in Germany in 1837. It was based on the progressive ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who thought that children were already good and active learners and that they should be encouraged to express themselves.

International Focus: SOS Children's Villages, Finland

Finland has a population of 5.5 million. Despite being a relatively wealthy country - its per capita output is equivalent to France - it has an unemployment rate of nearly 10 per cent and youth unemployment is double that level. Nearly one million Finns earn too little to cover their costs of living, with one in 10 children having welfare needs.

Pathways children's home

Pathways is a nine-place children's home in Cornwall that cares for young people aged five to 18 with emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties

Parent partner programmes, US

Parent partner programmes bring together parents whose children have been, or at risk of being, taken into care with parents who have previously been involved with welfare agencies and had a positive outcome.