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Highlights:
- New data show policy convergence among 15 ex-Soviet states in childcare deinstitutionalization.
- Countries adopted policies as ‘a package’ (goals + instruments), as promoted by international actors.
- Authoritarian states adopted the same policy instruments, as non-authoritarian states.
- Authoritarian states adopted ‘modern’, non-coercive policy instruments, based on the agentic individual.
- World culture and international advocacy appear key to childcare policy instrument choice.
Abstract
This chapter analyses the educational choices and decisions of young people who have recently transitioned from alternative care to independent living in North-West Russia. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with 22 young adults. The central concept in the analysis is ‘agency’. We ask: (1) what modes of agency do care leavers exercise in their choices of education and (2) what factors affect the modes? Special attention is paid to the temporal dimension of decision-making, professional identity, and individual sense of agency, while the second question is…
Through the two-year project ‘Leaving Care – An Integrated Approach to Capacity Building of Professionals and Young People’, SOS Children’s Villages, in collaboration with international project partners, aimed to train care professionals in how to apply a child rights-based approach in their work with young people leaving care and worked to strengthen support networks for young care leavers.
Building on previous findings
Supporting young people who have grown up in alternative care is essential so that these young people can lead independent lives.…