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A major ministerial conference on ending the placement of children under three in institutional carewas held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 21 and 22 November 2012. Organized by the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria in collaboration with UNICEF, it brought together representatives of twenty governments from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, experts from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, international and local NGOs and the academic world to discuss strategies and emerging good practices to…
TransMonEE is a database that captures a vast range of data on social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, adolescents and women in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of independent States and the European Union. TransMonEE is used to support national reforms for the advancement of children rights, inform sector strategies, measure trends and provide benchmarking for countries and sub-regions, and improve the quality of monitoring trends in the situation of children and women at the national level. This document includes inter-country…
This report presents the survey Kevin Browne and colleagues conducted in 33 European countries to identify the number and characteristics of children less than three placed in residential care without their parents for more than three months during the year ending December 31, 2003. The purpose was to assess the rate and cost of residential care as a response to children in adversity. The provision of services to prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment was also assessed.
Ministries of Health in Europe were asked for official data, and of the 31 countries that responded it was…
In this report an attempt is made to address the issues that were defined in the terms of reference of the Working Group on Children at Risk and in Care.
The report starts with a discussion on the effect of institutionalisation on children and society at large. This is followed by an overview of the situation in Europe in terms of placement of children in residential care. Three distinct categories are identified: states with high rate of child residential care coupled with large institutions (Central and Eastern Europe); states with low rate of residential care and large institutions (…
Young children (0 to 3 years) placed in institutions are at risk of harm, attachment disorder and developmental delay, including neural atrophy. The neglect and damage caused by early deprivation is equivalent to violence. This project raises awareness about the consequences of early deprivation for children under three years, such as behavioural problems, attachment disorder, and cognitive delay.
This 15-month project aimed to map the number and characteristics of children under three placed in European institutions for more than three months without a parent as this information was…