Effective
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Social Welfare Spending
Ministry of Finance
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Government spend on social welfare is 6.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Child Welfare Spending
Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales
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Government spend on child welfare is 3.48% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Child Protection Spending
Child Fund. Guatemala: 10 años de inversión en niñez y adolescencia
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Government spend on child protection is 0.08% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Alternative Care Policy in Line with the 2009 Guidelines
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As a “public policy” it does not exist but there are applicable legal mechanisms, such as the Adoption Law and the SBS Agreement that includes the Foster Family program. // Como “política pública” no existe pero sí existen mecanismos legales aplicables, como la Ley de Adopciones y el Acuerdo de la SBS que crea el programa de Familias de Acogimiento Temporal.
Centralised Authority on Adoption
Consejo Nacional de Adopciones
Commitment to Deinstitutionalistion
Consejo Nacional de Adopciones (CNA), 2018; Child Frontiers, 2012
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1. Pilot plan for deinstitutionalization in Chimaltenago // Plan piloto de desinstitucionalización (DI) en Chimaltenago
2. National Commission of Deinstitutionalization // Comisión Nacional de DI (Plan de DI OJ y PGN)
3. Buckner, with DCOF funds, had a deinstitutionalization (DI) project focused on children under three years of age.
4. Holt International had a DI program in 2008-10 with GHR funds.
Comprehensive Child Protection Law
Ley de Protección Integral de la Niñez y Adolescencia, 2003
Continuum of Alternative Care Services Available
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Kinship care readily used but informally, foster care exists but very limited
Data System
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Each government body has some type of data collection system but nothing centralized. Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) has done an internal report on this.
Existence of a Regulatory Body and Regulatory System
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CNA has oversight and responsibility to register private residential care facilities. Four different government bodies have mandates for different roles and responsibilities of the child protection system: Judiciary, Attorney General, Secretariat for Social Welfare and National Adoption Council.
Gatekeeping Mechanism/Policy
Reglamento de la Procuraduría de Niñez y Adolescencia 56-2018
Means of Tracking Progress with Reforms
Care System Assessment completed in 2020 and will be used as a baseline
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Using the Care System Assessment, to be finalized
Moratorium on Admission into Institutions for Children Under 3
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Moratorium on New Institutions
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National Action Plan to Guide Reforms
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National Standards of Care
Standards for Residential Care, Consejo Nacional de Adopciones (CNA)
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There are 15 standards in CNA
Prevention of Separation Services Available
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Programa de Madres en Conflicto con su Maternidad del Consejo Nacional de Adopciones
Support for Careleavers (in Legislation and in Practice)
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Legislation Governing Children's Care
Ley de Protección Integral de la Niñez y Adolescencia, Decreto 27-2003; Ley de Adopciones 77-2007