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Reflecting on the last decade, a promising trend is emerging in the promotion of family-based alternatives for children in Sri Lanka. Despite some plateauing due to certain humanitarian, environmental, financial and political issues, there is a move to reduce the number of children in residential care. The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has a history of institutionalised care dating back to the nineteenth century and formalised care starting in the mid-twentieth century. Back then, the country faced many challenges including economic crises, a brutal war and a…
In this editorial, Ian Forber-Pratt, editor of this tenth anniversary edition of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond, gives an of alternative care in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
Introduction:
Over the past decade, the South Asian region has witnessed remarkable efforts in reforming child protection systems from institutions as the first resort to providing a wide range of family-based.
This tenth anniversary edition of the journal gives a real, raw, and…
This article focuses on the national efforts advancing children’s right to alternative care services in Nepal. It presents the government’s existing laws and policies in providing responsible care to children in need of special protection and for children who cannot be placed in parental care due to various reasons for family separation.
This article also looks into the history of alternative care in Nepal and discusses the alternative forms of care practised in the communities and their evolution, upholding the best interest of the child.
The authors share the promising practices of…
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This qualitative research aimed to develop the alternative care action plan for Thailand. The method used in this study included the analysis of documents related to the alternative care situations in Thailand and the interviews where the key informants were specifically selected so that the collected data could be used to develop the alternative care action plan. The study found that Thailand had seven areas of strengths and challenges related to the alternative care i.e. laws and policies related to the gatekeeping and family strengthening, collaborative structured and…
National Plan of Action on Alternative Care for Children Phase 1 (2022 - 2026) has been prepared to provide the direction of alternative care operations in Thailand that reflects the spirit of practices on alternative care for children in 5 areas:
- Family support and strengthening to prevent unnecessary separation,
- Gatekeeping processes and mechanisms to prevent unnecessary separation of children from the family,
- Ensuring quality of various childcare services
- Deinstitutionalization to reduce dependence on institutions which should be a last resort…
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Why do some countries become early policy adopters and fast policy implementers? The author investigates this question through the analysis of cross-national policy shift toward childcare deinstitutionalization, i.e., the transition from institutional to community-based provision for children without parental care. The article presents the newly collected data on the adoption of childcare deinstitutionalization policy by 15 countries – previously republics of the Soviet Union. Qualitative comparative analysis is employed to explore the role of national-level attributes…
Government leaders and representatives from 25 countries in East Asia and the Pacific, alongside researchers and practitioners from civil society, youth networks, academia and the private sector, came together for the Second Regional Conference on Strengthening Implementation of the INSPIRE Strategies During COVID–19 and Beyond hosted by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in November 2021.
This brief summarizes key messages from the session ‘Making it Count: Strengthening data and evidence to prevent and respond to violence against children’. It offers an overview of the data and…
Why is it so important to consider mental health and emotional well-being in child care and child protection? How can we address mental health needs in a non-clinical environment? What are some of the tried and tested approaches to supporting the mental health of vulnerable children? In this webinar three members from the Family for Every Child alliance present how they support the mental health of vulnerable children they work with in their different contexts, sharing their programmes and methodologies and responding to questions from audience members.
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There are a range of factors that case workers supporting children’s reintegration out of residential care need to consider and assess for to ensure reintegration is safe, effective, and pursued in a way that is in the best interests of children. Much attention has been paid to the importance of conducting rigorous child and family assessments and to facilitating family reconnection prior to reunification. This video explores a lesser-known factor, that also has a strong impact on children’s reintegration in many contexts; the influence of patron-client relationships formed between orphanage…
The number of children in urban areas in Indonesia has continued to increase. Despite the fact that children in urban areas fare better on several measures of wellbeing compared to those in rural areas, marginalized groups still fail to survive and thrive. Access to services and opportunities for a better quality of life in cities are limited for the urban poor and vulnerable, of which children and young people account for almost a third. This study explores children’s and young people’s characteristics, well-being, and lived experiences, providing a critical foundation for policy and…