Development of Alternative Services, including Foster Care, within the Framework of Reforming Child Protection System

UNICEF, Nelly Petrova-Dimitrova

The following is a summary of the Bulgarian experience in implementing a comprehensive reform of the care and protection system for children at-risk.

It shows the achievements as well as the lessons learned during this challenging process, exploring identification and implementation of reform priorities, the Bulgarian experience of reducing rates of institutionalization, capacitating the social welfare sector and citizen constituency to support foster care development, and responding to social attitudes around at risk children and family and community based care. 

 

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