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In childcare institutions (CCIs) in India, children with mild or moderate levels of disability are often placed with non-disabled children for care and protection. Generally, children with intellectual disability (ID), learning disability, hearing and speech impairment and multiple disabilities with ID are found to be living in these CCIs.
In this best practice article, the challenges faced by these children with disabilities and the potential for inclusion within the CCI are discussed based on the field action project intervention of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),…
In this online event, Family for Every Child members FSCE (Ethiopia), The Mulberry Bush (UK), Praajak (India) and CSID (Bangladesh) discussed children's care in the context of COVID-19. Discussion points included responding to vulnerable groups including children on the move and children with disabilities; domestic violence; kinship care and the digital divide. This webinar also included an overview of what is happening across the membership, and how Family is adapting to support members during this time.
Abstract
Research states that institutionalisation often results in negative outcomes for children’s mental, physical and emotional health and behaviour. Alternatively, deinstitutionalisation can buffer this negative impact across countries and cultures. However, these results have been inadequately replicated with children having disabilities, who are at heightened risk of negative psychosocial outcomes of institutionalisation. Owing to the large number of children with disabilities in institutional care and this seems unrepresentative and undesirable. In the current…
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Background: Families play a critical role in their children's development and learning. Parents' understanding of their child's illness has a significant impact on the parent–child relationship and helps them to have realistic expectations. Objectives: The objective of this study is to understand the use of parental-group intervention for making parents understand the problems of the children and to develop skills to deal with the problems. Methods: A six-session parental-group intervention module was…
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Purpose
Families of children with disabilities often have needs related to the care of their child with a disability. Although there has been extensive exploration of family needs in high‐income contexts, there is little known about this issue in low and middle‐income countries like Bangladesh. In this study, we explored the needs of families of children with cerebral palsy in Bangladesh. Such understanding is important as it will help to improve services for children with disabilities and their families.
Methods
We used a qualitative approach and interviewed 20 family…
This volume is an effort to highlight best practices for children without parental care. The book provides an explanation of the issues surrounding children in need of care and protection, with an emphasis on the best interests of the child. The volume also covers issues like the importance of alternative care for children, childcare and rehabilitation priorities, best practices for children with special needs, counseling and attachment issues, and adoption procedures. The book also contains a child protection glossary for those new to the area of child adoption.
Executive Summary
This report presents the findings from a study that aimed to explore the application in practice of the ‘necessity principle’ from the Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children (UN, 2009) by using three quantitative and three qualitative indicators that provide information about whether children and families have received support to the fullest extent possible before a child ends up outside of parental care arrangements in formal or informal care, or living alone.
The indicators assume that a child in the care of his or her own parents and family is more likely to be…
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 report documents involuntary admission and arbitrary detention in mental hospitals and residential care institutions across India, where women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities experience overcrowding and lack of hygiene, inadequate access to general healthcare, forced treatment – including electroconvulsive therapy – as well as physical, verbal, and sexual violence. In one case, a woman with both intellectual and psychosocial disabilities was sexually assaulted by a male staff member in a mental hospital in Kolkata. The report also examines the multiple barriers…
The Government of India has submitted its third and fourth combined report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (dated 26 August 2011), 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.
For the full report, please visit: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/crcs66.htm
Among information provided by the Government of India relating to children’s care, including sections addressing…