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The Goal of the Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and protect the basic rights of the child separated from his/her biological parents and receiving kinship or foster care, so that they are safe and thriving in a warm, loving and happy family environment. The Prakas aims to set principles, procedures, rights, conditions, roles and responsibilities of relevant competent ministries, institutions, entities and service providers to implement kinship care or foster care, complementing Prakas No. 2280 MoSVY dated 11 October 2011 on procedures to implement the Policy on…
Following a mapping of residential care facilities in Cambodia in 2015, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) asked that the Royal Government issue Sub-Decree 119, dated 11 September 2015, on the Management of Residential Care Centres, to promote and improve the quality and effectiveness of residential care management and uphold the best interests of…
This Action Plan for improving child care, with the target of safely returning 30 per cent of children in residential care to their families 2016 - 2018, was developed to support the implementation of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) Work Platform 2014–2018 and the Sub-Decree 119 on the Management of Residential Care Institutions, which was endorsed on 11 September 2015. The objective of the reintegration of children from residential care institutions to families is fully in line with the guiding principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the…
The ‘Capacity Development Plan for family support, foster care and adoption’ was developed based on the findings of an independent assessment commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation and facilitated by UNICEF. It was jointly carried out by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) and International Social Service (ISS). The Plan presents key findings and 23 recommendations, sub-divided into short-term, medium-term and long-term actions, for an effective and efficient implementation of foster care, adoption and…