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The Opening Doors 2018 country factsheets provide an update about the progress with the transition from institutional to family- and community-based care (also known as deinstitutionalisation). The new generation of country snapshots covers 12 EU Member States, 2 EU pre-accession and 2 EU neighbouring countries. This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Greece and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.
The 2017 country factsheets provide an update on the status of child protection and care reforms from 16 European countries that are the focus of Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign in Phase II. The latest compilation of data identifies key achievements and gaps towards DI reforms in each participating country across member states, pre-accession countries and countries within the EU neighbourhood. The evidence focuses on policies that regulate deinstitutionalisation and prevention of child abandonment; engagement of civil society; existing know-hows;…
This paper presents a policy position which argues that, “as the Greek authorities map out the road to long-term recovery, several key steps to reform the child protection and care system should be taken as a matter of priority.” The paper was developed by Hope and Homes for Children (HHC) and Roots Research Centre in collaboration with Eurochild. HHC and Eurochild jointly coordinate the Opening Doors campaign which promotes an end to institutional care and the strengthening of families and is currently active in 11 countries, including Greece, where Roots is the national coordinator.…
In this important chapter of the Handbook of Child Well-Being, the authors review the findings from research on the cognitive and social-emotional development of children exposed to various natural experiments in which the quality of parenting or family environment could be placed on a continuum. The authors first review findings on the social-emotional and cognitive development of children reared in institutional care. As an illustration they present two studies involved children reared in institutions in Ukraine and Greece.…