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Adequate investment in the social service workforce ensures that people in need can receive social services that are of sufficient quality to uphold their rights, promote their well-being and help them achieve their full potential. Governments can be motivated to make investment in social services a higher priority by demonstrating how investment in the social service workforce, along with the services they provide, is an investment in the future, given the economic and social benefits that result from upholding the rights of children, families, and other individuals in need, and meeting…
An adequately planned, developed, and supported social service workforce is critical to enable equitable access to social protection and basic social welfare for all, in both development and humanitarian contexts. An important step in planning the required workforce is to establish a minimum social worker to population ratio and allocate resources for workforce development and support until the minimum ratio has been achieved, with the aim of ensuring sufficient quality of services to protect clients’ rights, promote their well-being and help them achieve their full potential.
This guide…
On 18 October 2019, the UK Government updated its guidance on gap years and volunteering overseas to include an advisory on volunteering at and visiting orphanages abroad. The guide explains some of the harmful impacts of orphanage volunteering and encourages prospective volunteers to consider these risks and safeguarding considerations in their research and planning. The guide also highlights the International Forum for Volunteering in Development's work to establish a Global Standard for Volunteering in Development, which would require organizations adopting the Global…
The Health Information and Standards Directorate in Ireland's HIQA has launched a public consultation on Draft National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres. This consultation aims to gather the views of children living in residential care, their families and people involved in caring for children in residential care on the draft national standards. This feedback will be considered and will inform the development of the final National Standards.
The public consultation will run until 5pm on Thursday 02 November 2017.
Purpose and scope of the…
The Child Protection System Guidelines were developed to address the fragmented response to child protection in Kenya and guide actors at the county level to deliver more coordinated and professional services for children and their families.
The Guidelines are split into five sections:
- The Roles and Responsibilities of Actors in Child Protection
- Child Protection Services
- Standards of Operation in Provision of Child Protection Services
- Coordination of Child Protection Actors and Actions
- Implementation Checklist for the…
This document provides the national framework for the child protection system in Kenya, developed with the intention of improving linkages between different sectors for more a more coordinated approach to protecting children. In addition to identifying and describing the objectives and guiding principles and values for the framework (provided below), this document includes background information and justification for the development of a framework, as well as the framework's structure and roles and functions of stakeholders working in child protection.
Objectives (…
From December 2007 to August 2010, Save the Children UK implemented a project intended to improve the quality of child protection systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to reduce overall vulnerability and poverty for children receiving services within those systems. In the early stages of the project, two working groups were established to develop the standards for child protection within Bosnia and Herzegovina. After completing the assessment phase and identifying priority needs in the field, the working groups identified five areas within child protection to focus on: 1.) Foster care…
WHAT: Operational standards and guidance for residential care facilities for girls and women survivors of trafficking and abuse. It covers administration and staff, confidentiality, care planning, responding to immediate and longer term support needs, psychosocial care, life skills and reintegration activities.
WHO: Policy makers, managers, social and community workers, and staff in institutions providing care and support for victims of trafficking, exploitation and abuse. Useful also for those inspecting facilities.…
WHAT: A set of standards for boarding and residential schools. It outlines what young people can expect when they receive school care accommodation services from a registered/regulated provider.
WHO: School care accommodation providers, managers, professional staff, parents, young people and children. Also for policy makers and those assessing the quality of services of boarding and residential schools.
WHERE: These standards are for services in Scotland, UK. Significant modifications would be required to be able…
WHAT: A set of standards for foster care services, including:
- recruiting, selecting, approving, training, and supporting foster caregivers;
- matching children and young people with foster caregivers;
- supporting and monitoring foster caregivers; and
- the work of agency fostering panels and other approval panels.