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The European Commission has proposed a “10-Point Plan for stronger European coordination on welcoming people fleeing the war from Ukraine” (endorsed by the European Parliament and the Council) that includes:
- Creation of an EU platform for registration.
- An EU level coordinated approach for transport and information hubs.
- Enhance reception systems and ensure continuity of care and suitable accommodation.
- Developing national contingency plans to address medium to long-term needs.
- Standard…
The presented analyses aim at depicting social discourse concerning the process of care leaving. They are of a preliminary nature and are intended to prepare methodological, and theoretical grounds for a larger research project devoted to this issue. The analyses are conducted in the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The analyses facilitated the identification of major linguistic forms (tokens), as well as their broader clusters (genres), constituting the content of the investigated discourse. Moreover, the reconstruction of a discursively created subject of the transition from…
Abstract: The social and political transformation that occurred in Poland following the fall of the communist system has resulted in an intensive development of non-governmental organizations, including those offering services for children and families. Social policy began to be perceived as a tool that allows for investing in the future of the youngest members of society (children and youth) rather than as a system of care services. Hence, the aim of this paper is to indicate threats and possibilities as regards the functioning of the foster care system and the process of adult care…
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This article is written as part of the FORUM project (FOR Unaccompanied Minors: transfer of knowledge for professionals to increase foster care), an EU funded project which sought to enhance the capacity of professionals to provide quality foster care for unaccompanied migrant children, primarily through the transfer of knowledge. The article aims to contribute to this transfer of knowledge by bringing together literature which is of relevance to professionals developing or enhancing foster care services for unaccompanied migrant children (such as social workers), other…
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The objective of foster care is to ensure that a child who is deprived of adequate care from the biological family lives in the adequate environment. People who deal with Foster care responsibilities are bound to ensure a proper care to a child as well as prepare this child to future life, including vocational one. Thus, essential are educational and vocational plans of charges since they affect the process of gaining the autonomy by a youngster. The three actions: firstly, analysing the literature, secondly, doing researches in bialski poviat, thirdly, conducting a…
Cada año, miles de jóvenes se enteran de que pronto tendrán que finalizar el acogimiento para vivir por cuenta propia. Para muchos, la transición posterior del acogimiento a la vida independiente genera consecuencias desestabilizadoras al aumentar su sensación de soledad e inseguridad, tanto financiera como emocional. En el informe Finalización de la acogida: Lecciones de una investigación entre pares1 se reflexiona sobre la cruda realidad y las deficiencias perturbadoras del proceso de transición.
El meollo de este proyecto de investigación de dos años está en los testimonios de más de…
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We researched the extent to which professional foster families fulfil their tasks to reintegrate families, what attitudes professional foster families assume towards the idea of reintegration, and to what extent and how professional foster families support a child separated from his or her family and parents in the process of reintegration.
The research examined case studies of a sample of 58 professional foster families functioning as emergency shelter families in the Province of Silesia.
The most Polish professional foster families assume a negative attitude towards…
The aim of this article is to study the situation on realizing children’s rights in Poland and in Russia in the context of Janusz Korczak’s principles by using the following objectives:
- Analyze the historical and pedagogical literature for the study of "children’s rights” notion;
- Describe Janusz Korczak pedagogical ideas on children’s rights;
- Reveal the realization of Korczak's humanistic ideas on Children’s rights on the example of the of Child refugees in Poland;
- Describe the situation with realizing children’s rights in Russia.
This report presents the findings from a two-year peer research project which includes the testimony of more than 300 young people with care experience in Albania, the Czech Republic, Finland, and Poland. Their collective understanding of the leaving care process directly informed both the findings and policy recommendations contained in the report. More than 40 care leavers from the four countries were selected and trained to play an active role in the all aspects of the projects, from designing the questionnaire to conducting the interviews, analyzing 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…