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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…
This Country Fact Sheet from Belgium contains short facts on care and institutionalization in Belgium. Institutional care is the primary form of care for children in Belgium without parental support. Currently, there is no deinstitutionalization strategy in place.
As of 2013, there were over 5,000 children in institutional care in the French community of Belgium. There were over 7,000 children in institutional care in the Flanders community of Belgium as of 2015. Both had a high proportion of children with disabilities in institutional care.
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A comparative analysis of child welfare systems in 10 countries identifies three broad functional orientations – child protection, family service and child development – around the problem definition, mode of intervention and role of the state: The changes in policies and practices since the mid-1990s suggest the possibility of functional convergence among these systems with moderate versions of the child protection and family service orientations incorporated within the more comprehensive approach of child development. An analysis of administrative data on one important outcome…