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The purpose of the multi-country review, undertaken by UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, is to provide an overview of the current status of social service workforces in the region and to identify good and promising practices for workforce strengthening, in order to inform advocacy, legal, policy and strategy development, and investment. The report presents the size, scope and structure of the social service workforce, efforts to strengthen the workforce through policy development, legislative reform, professionalization,…
Abstract : This chapter from the book Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism highlights promising practice which aims to prevent and reduce the institutionalization of children at two levels: (1) systems and social work strengthening, and (2) family strengthening and gatekeeping. The ultimate goal is to maximize family preservation supported by strong community…
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This open access article explores the construction of childhood and parenthood in rural communities in Indonesia based on a series of focus group discussions with service providers, community decision makers, and paraprofessionals; a group that we refer to as “frontline providers”. By examining the providers’ definition of successful children and their perception of factors that could undermine a child’s success, we provide insights into how frontline providers understand the role of parents, and how parenthood is constructed accordingly. We found that the providers’ definition of…
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Indonesia is building a child protection system where primary preventions aim to support families and intervention is based on community-based care options rather than the current reliance on institutional care. Social work has been identified as the lead profession in this structural change. This requires social work to be better recognized as a profession in Indonesian society. This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role for social work in child protection in Indonesia. Key learning outlines the need for global collaboration and the need for an indigenous…
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The purpose of this book is to primarily to introduce the PDAK – Pusat Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (Child and Family Support Centre). The PDAK was conceived predicated upon the concept of providing a direct response to children and families experiencing challenges in care and protection. The interventions conducted by the PDAK seek to identify solutions other than the traditional approach of placing children in institutions. The PDAK is one of the strategies adopted by Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik - Partner of Save the Children and the Ministry of Social Affairs in…
This Supervision Guideline document from Save the Children contains guidelines and underlying principles for Pusan Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK) child and family support centre social workers in working with children and families.
The guidelines include outlines for minimum standards of access to and quality of services, supervisory party roles, and supervisor responsibilities. Underlying principles encompass the definition of social work supervision along with core functions.
Supervision is defined “as designated interaction between two or more case managers, within a safe…
This presentation, given at the Social Service Workforce and the Practice of Working with Vulnerable Children and Families Symposium, provides an overview of a child welfare curriculum development and training project for social work faculty in Indonesia. The project was convened by Save the Children in partnership with Building Professional Social Work (BPSW), a project of Building Bridges to the Future Foundation, and the US National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) at Silberman School of Social Work of Hunter College in New York.
The presentation includes a…
This working paper, produced by the Better Care Network and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, explores the topic of social service workforce strengthening as it relates to child care reform. It is intended to be a useful resource for reform efforts and a practical and accessible overview for use by policy-makers, practitioners, and service providers in contexts that are either considering the implications of care reforms for their social service workforce or are already engaged in a process and are searching for strategies to align and increase the effectiveness of the workforce…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the third and fourth periodic reports of Indonesia (CRC/C/IND/CO/3-4) during its 65th Session at its 1890th and 1891st meetings held on 5 June 2014, and adopted, at its 1901st meeting, held on 13 June 2014.
The Government of the Republic of Indonesia has submitted its third and fourth combined report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (dated 18th October 2012), which is due to be examined by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 66th Session, taking place in May-June 2014 in Geneva.
This document contains the care-related sections of the report.