Caroline Vink is a senior advisor on international children & youth policy at the Netherlands Youth Institute. Her work is to monitor trends and (international) developments that are relevant for the policy and practice of children & youth policy in the Netherlands. A large part of her work is focused on policy developments in the field of youth of international bodies such as the European Union, Council of Europe and the United Nations. Her work has covered a wide range of topics, reaching from youth participation & children rights to child abuse. She is also the correspondent from the Netherlands for the European Knowledge Centre on Youth Policy.