Since 1998, Care for Children has pioneered family-based care in China, helping transform their child welfare system. Foster care now represents one of the primary methods of care for orphaned and vulnerable children.

Working under the Ministry of Civil Affairs with the Chinese Association of Social Workers, Care for Children has trained thousands of family placement workers throughout the country to provide long-term support to children and the families they join, and hundreds of thousands of children’s lives have been transformed.

In 2021 the China project successfully moved into a new era of work designed to pioneer Care for Children’s digitalisation developments that are critical for our new vision to see ‘a world of children in families’.

This will also ensure that China has a sustainable, replicable model of care, ensuring that generations of orphaned and abandoned children will continue to benefit from Care for Children’s work in China.