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This paper presents a juvenile delinquency prevention program for unaccompanied foreign minors in street situations in Ceuta, Spain. The main objective is to assess the implementation and results of this program. Due to its proximity to Morocco and its two enclaves in Africa, Spain faces specific challenges regarding immigration. Ceuta’s geographic and fiscal specificities offer a porous border and some of the people crossing it every day are minors. Currently there are around 300 unaccompanied foreign minors in the reception centre under administrative supervision, and approximately 50…
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Numerous studies show the low academic levels of adolescents who are institutionalized in residential care facilities. Few adolescents who are or have been institutionalized in residential care are able to obtain a higher education degree, limiting their chances for a higher level of well-being and quality of life. The presence of this social group in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is extremely low. This article shows the results of research that reveals the impact of a successful educational action, such as extending learning time for…
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Child protection systems across the global South suffer from common problems, one of the most critical among which is low number and skills of relevant professionals to deliver services. Additionally, child protection professionals are often demotivated, uncoordinated and isolated, with limited access to continuous training and support. Peer learning and capacity building networks help address these issue, and often leverage the spread and scope of information and communications technologies. We present one such network, ChildHub, initially developed and deployed in South-East…
The Child Protection Hub for South East Europe’s (ChildHub) overall objective is to contribute to the realisation of children’s fundamental rights across South East Europe, in particular the rights to be protected from abuse and violence. The purpose of the project was, by the end of 2017, to provide child protection professionals and key stakeholders from SEE with improved access to technical resources and support networks, allowing them to expand, improve, and advocate for qualitative services and policies for children and families in need of protection. The project strategically…
This publication from SOS Children's Villages and CELCIS describes the two-year project 'Prepare for Leaving Care,' which aimed to "embed a child rights based culture into child protection systems which improves outcomes for children and young people in particular in the preparation for leaving care," with youth participation at the heart of all activities. The report…
The general objective of the project "Children Come First: Intervention at the border" is to strengthen the system of protection and reception of migrant children arriving in Italy, whether they are separated or accompanied by their parents.
As part of the project, Save the Children Italy elaborates and disseminates, on a quarterly basis, a dossier containing quantitative and qualitative information (profiles) relating to migrant minors entering Italy. This dossier (written in Italian) contains information relating to the quarter October-December 2016, but it also provides a brief summary…
Udayan Care launched an academic journal, Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB), in 2014. This 10th issue of the journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’ The issue includes research studies, legal and policy perspectives, case studies, desk reviews, opinion pieces, international perspectives, interviews with experts from the field, good models and best practices, and movie and book reviews.
The issue features an interview with a care-leaver from Sri Lanka who grew up in institutions…
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In recent years, the study of parental sense of competence has become increasingly relevant in the field of family intervention. However, despite the importance of the protective task carried out by foster carers, research into parental competences is still scarce among non-kin foster families. The main purpose of this paper is to explore non-kin foster carers' sense of parental competence and analyze its determinants and predictors in non-kin foster families. The sample comprised 48 Spanish non-kin foster families and the children in their care. The results indicate that non-kin…
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Professional support of families that are under temporary protection, with the goal of reunification, is necessary for helping families re‐establish their family dynamics. Without this support, the conditions that contributed to child abuse and neglect will likely persist. In this context, the attitude of professionals towards positive parenting and child participation is a decisive factor. The quantitative study presented here contributes knowledge regarding these 2 variables. The study was conducted with 106 professionals who work in the child protection system in Spain. The…
This Practice Guidance seeks to promote improvements in practice that should have a positive impact for young people during and after the leaving care process. It is grounded first and foremost in the realities of the national and local contexts in which leaving care is currently carried out. It was produced as part of the Prepare for Leaving Care project…