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This issue brief from the UNHCR highlights key messages from UNHCR in regards to alternative care, including the importance of making alternative care arrangements based on the best interests of the child and using residential or institutional care only as a very last resort. The brief defines the role of the UNHCR in alternative care as well as key concepts of alternative care. The brief reviews the types of alternative care and key actions that UNHCR and its partners can do to ensure the best interests of the child in alternative care. The brief concludes with some examples of the…
Foster Care India commissioned the Centre for Law and Policy Research in 2013 to undertake a policy review of the legal framework of foster care, with one project focusing on Rajasthan and another, for India. This paper is being published to share the findings of CLPR’s review and to stimulate debate and further research on this topic. Based on an analysis of the current provisions of foster care in India, along with the rules and schemes on foster care framed by states in India, more specifically in Delhi…