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This is the monthly update of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform published in September 2022.
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The Children Act, 2022, is an act of Parliament to give effect to Article 53 of the Constitution; to make provision for children rights, parental responsibility, alternative care of children including guardianship, foster care placement and adoption; to make provision for care and protection of children and children in conflict with the law; to make provision for, and regulate the administration of children services; to establish the National Council for Children’s Services and for connected purposes.
This is the monthly update of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform published in June 2022.
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This Changing the Way We Care virtual study tour aims to provide an overview of care reform in Kenya from the comfort of your own home. Care reform relates to the care of children. It refers to efforts to improve the legal and policy frameworks, structures, services, supports and resources that determine and deliver alternative care, prevent family separation and support families to care for children well.
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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/the Committee) considered the second periodic report of the Republic of Kenya during its 35th Ordinary Session, which was held on 31 August – 08 September virtually. The dialogue with the Delegation of Kenya, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, Minister of Labour and Social Protection, H.E.Mr. Simon K. Chelugui helped the Committee to better understand the measures that the State Party has undertaken towards the implementation of the Charter as well as the challenges it is facing. After a careful consideration of the…
Executive Summary
The government of Kenya is committed to moving away from institutional care towards family and communitybased care. This is in line with international and national child rights instruments and informed by a growing evidence-based illustrating the benefits of family-based care on children’s development and the potential negative impacts of residential care. Kenya has made important strides and achieved key milestones over the past two decades in relation to children’s care and protection. Beginning in 2001, when the Children’s Act (referred hereafter as “…
This comprehensive training package includes the training facilitator’s manual, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, case studies, and video clips. They provide information, methodologies, and practical tools to build the capacity of child protection practitioners who work directly with or for children at risk of separation from their families or those who are deprived of parental care. Alternative care—as presented in the …
Executive Summary
Kenya has made important progress towards tackling violence against children. Global, regional and national level commitments have been made to address violence against children, as evidenced by the laws, policies, guidelines, strategies and multi-sector programmes and initiatives implemented following the development of the Response Plan to Violence Against Children (2013–2018).
In 2019, Kenya conducted a survey that measured the prevalence, nature and consequences of physical, emotional and sexual violence against children. Drawing on the latest data from the 2019…
This handbook is a key tool for supporting care reform in Kenya, promoting family-based alternative care for children, and moving away from institutional care.
This book is particularly written for formal and informal government practitioners: social workers, child protection volunteers, police, health workers, teachers, community health workers, child and youth workers, probation officers, and para-social workers, including:
- Chiefs, Nyumba Kumi and Village elders, and Area Advisory Councils
- Community-based organizations (CBOs), faith-based organizations (…
BACKGROUND
The guidelines have been developed from the experience of stakeholders in Child Protection sector in handling cases of children in need of care and protection over the recent past. In particular, a participatory process between Department of Children’s Services and other partners in Child Protection sector from Busia County helped conceive the guidelines from 2012. The experience of Department of Children Services and other child protection actors working in the community has also contributed to the development of these case management and referral guidelines. It is however…