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This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005. It provides an overview of the situation of children without parental care in Timor-Leste and the child welfare system in the country, including residential/institutional care and adoption.
This document includes practical and professional paperwork for residential care including registration and assessment forms, application for renewal of licenses, referral forms, and emergency admission forms. Can be modified for different country contexts. While these forms may prove useful to organizations and governments seeking to provide oversight to residential institutions, they are not comprehensive. The forms do not sufficiently emphasize the need to collect regular information regarding each child in the care system, or the need to review each child's case regularly, with the aim of…
The Division of Social Services under the Secretariat of Labour and Solidarity has developed the Policy and Procedures for Child Care Centres and Boarding Houses. This process was assisted by wide consultation with users and service providers including staff of Child Care Centres, Boarding Houses, Government, NGOs, UNICEF and the children themselves. The consultation was a combination of individual interviews, visits to institutions and workshops. As a result the Policy and Procedures have been developed with attention to the views of users and service providers. …
Richard Daschbach, a now-defrocked 84-year-old US priest has been charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls in the shelter he ran in Timor-Leste. This article tells the story of one of the young women who spoke out about the abuse she experienced.