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Data and Trend Analysis (DATA) Refugees and Migrants at the Western Balkans Route Regional Overview, covering period July - September 2019, describes key trends in migrations in the region, detailing information about the number of people on the move, demography (age, sex, country of origin, etc), behavioral patterns, and routes in use - with a focus on children, particularly unaccompanied children.
Key trends showcased in this report:
- The Western Balkans Route remained the most traveled route to Europe during the third quarter of the year, with at…
This report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) provides information on the migration situation throughout the EU from 1-30 June 2017. The report includes data on the child protection situation for migrant children, particularly the identification, emergency placement and accommodation of unaccompanied children.
This summary report describes the project UNICEF has undertaken with the government of Bulgaria to establish a nationwide regional approach to foster care development based on its pilot experience.
The implementation of the project involved building partnerships at national and local levels to develop a common approach to foster care provision, improve quality of foster care, build supportive network for foster parents. The project also managed to establish and apply common understanding on foster care principles, procedures, roles and responsibilities. 9 regional foster care…
This report gives an overview of the documentary reality TV series, “Life as it is-foster families,” which UNICEF in Bulgaria launched in 2010 as a part of its agenda to stop children under 3 years of age from being placed in institutions and to close the infant homes for institutional care. The TV series filmed real life stories of 11 foster families for about seven months, showing the positive outcomes for the children living in foster care as well as challenges foster families face to take care of a child who is coming from an institution.
The TV series aimed to raise public…
Article 7 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.” When a child is abandoned, this right is violated. Infants and young children are those most at risk of being abandoned There is a distinct lack of research in understanding the extent, causes, and consequences of child abandonment. Such studies are essential in order to develop effective prevention programs and strategies aimed at protecting children most vulnerable in the European society.
This comprehensive manual provides an overview of…
WHAT: Guidance and forms on preventing institutionalization of children and promoting family unification. It presents Save the Children and partners’ experience of deinstitutionalization via the Take Me Home 2 project (2002-2005). The manual includes good practices and lessons learnt, training plans, care planning forms, and assessment guidance.
WHO: Social workers, staff of institutions and their managers.
WHERE: Based on a Bulgarian project, but universally relevant.
WHY: Provides…
The reforms undertaken during the transition to a market economy have had an uneven and divergent social impact on the countries within the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It is now recognized by governments in many parts of the region that the policy of using institutional care for children with welfare needs is both ineffective and expensive. Despite reforms, the quality of care within institutions and in the new community- based services is still inconsistent and in many cases does not meet the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The…
This report assesses how far the SCEP Statement of Good Practice and relevant international obligations are met in 11 countries of Central Europe and the Baltic States, in relation to specific issues: the definition of a “separated child”, access to the territory, identification, the appointment of a guardian or adviser, registration and documentation, age assessment, freedom from detention, the right to participate, family tracing and contact, family reunification in a European country, interim care, health, education and training, the refugee determination process and durable or long-term…
Unaccompanied refugee children in Bulgaria face extreme risks in the country's refugee facilities, including temporary detention, a practice recently legalized contrary to international human rights standards.