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This report highlights the recommendations and priorities that EU decision-makers and national governments can do to support the most vulnerable children and prevent widening inequalities.
Based on input from Eurochild national members from 22 countries across Europe, the report provides feedback on the 2022 European Semester Country Reports and Country Specific Recommendations; the development of the Child Guarantee National…
This book brings together knowledge of how modern countries in Europe and the United States deal with the issue of errors and mistakes in child protection in a cross-national perspective. Leading experts from England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA will pool expertise in order to address critical questions.
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France’s welfare system relies on an intricate network of universal-access public services that is fairly effective in terms of ensuring public health and basic needs. Child protection and welfare services, Aide sociale à l’enfance (ASE), operate within this strong framework on a territorial basis, with priorities and protocols being decided in each of France’s 101 départements. To carry out its mission, ASE organises the centralisation of all information giving rise to concern in close collaboration with the justice system, and carries out…
This report from Human Rights Watch examines the arbitrary procedures and inordinate delays in determining that unaccompanied migrant children in France are under age 18, the first step to entry into the French child protection system. The report outlines the ways in which unaccompanied minors are mistreated, and their cases mishandled, in the processing of their cases and offers recommendations for addressing these issues.
The French Red Cross does age assessments for unaccompanied children in Paris, delegated to do so by the department of Paris (a department is a local…
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In 2010, the French Ministry of Health started the implementation of the “PRADO” process, which constitutes a way to finance two early post-partum home visits by midwives. These two visits occur between the third and twelfth day of the newborn child. However, this PRADO program has come as a supplementary service, while the Maternal and child protection services (“PMI”) were already in charge of home visitation in early postpartum up to the child’s sixth birthday. Through a qualitative survey, this study aimed at evaluating the effect of the implementation of the PRADO program…
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The French institutional context of child welfare occasionally requires educational interventions under constraints. In that case, social workers are mandated by the juvenile court to intervene in the family and set up an educational measure. Drawing on sociocultural psychology, more specifically on a dialogical approach to social interactions and discourse, this study explores how the social workers and the families cope with the paradox of constrained help and enter into some form of collaboration. The data are made up of five first time visits by the social workers at the…
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Different family migration strategies and immigration policies may lead to the separation of family members and the formation of transnational families, some of which end up reunifying later on in the country of destination. Despite the growing interest in this issue, no systematic large‐scale study has analysed to what extent child reunification patterns vary among family types, but also in distinct policy contexts. In this paper, we examine the reunification patterns of children left‐behind by parents who migrated to France and Spain in order to understand whether children from…
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Every year in France, nearly 50 infants live in a prison nursery with their mother. According to French law, infants can live with their mother in the prison nursery until they reach 18 months of age. The international community is concerned about the lack of validated social, medical and legal data on these infants living in prison. This was a retrospective and descriptive study. Medical and paramedical files of the General Council of Île-et-Vilaine, France, were studied. Every infant born between 1998 and 2013 while their mother was in prison were included.…
Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child. The reporting countries are: Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.
At the time of publication, 195 countries had…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.