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The current chapter comprises the first-time inclusion of Israel’s child protection system in a comparative survey of such systems worldwide. Following the introduction, the chapter describes the historical development of social services and child protection in Israel, relevant governmental commissions, and the prevention-oriented ‘360 Degrees – Israeli National Program for Children and Youth at Risk’. The child protection legislative framework for child maltreatment, including the ‘Youth (Care and Supervision) Law’, and the ‘Mandatory Reporting Law’ are additional topics…
Residential child and youth care is examined in places from which practice-based evidence has been rarely shared with the rest of the World. Volume 1 – Global Perspectives used the FIFA Football Confederation Regions to examine residential child and youth care in eighteen countries rarely evidenced in the field, and then twenty-three further contributions in Volume 2 – European Perspectives. Volume 3 – Middle East and Asia Perspectives – offers glimpses of extended family care as well as residential child and youth care in 25 countries never gathered together before in one collection. Nine…
This report aims at describing and analysing existing protection mechanisms available for Palestinian refugee children with a focus on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). It is the result of a Save the Children Sweden research project through the Manara Network: A Civil Society for Child Rights in the MENA region, conducted with Naba’a (for Lebanon), Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine) (for the West Bank, including East Jerusalem) and The Palestinian Centre for Democracy and Conflict Resolution (PCDCR) (for the Gaza Strip) as implementing…