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The Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Alternative Family-based and Community-based Care of Children in Kenya provide guidance for the comprehensive implementation of the Guidelines for Alternative Family Care for Children in Kenya (2014). The SOPs guide actors to provide high-quality and standardized alternative care services to children separated from their parents (including emergency placements).
The SOPs provide step-by-step practical guidance on:
- Implementing safe and appropriate alternative family and community-based care services, especially when placing…
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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…
This is the UK government's implementation plan in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care - an independent review of the UK's care system in order to build recommendations for how the system can be improved and to continue feeding in a wide range of views - published in May 2022.
These Guidelines are for all persons taking care of children. The goal of these Guidelines is to empower parents, the family and community structures to effectively nurture children so that they can realise their full potential.
This document outlines the partnership between the Victorian Government, Victorian Aboriginal communities and the child and family services sector. The agreement reads as us:
"All Aboriginal children and young people are safe, resilient, thriving and living in culturally rich, strong Aboriginal families and communities.
Wungurilwil Gapgapduir: Aboriginal Children and Families Agreement (the agreement) establishes the aims, objectives and suite of actions based on seven principles, including the guiding principle of Aboriginal self-determination.
The agreement will operate as…
The Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support were issued by the California Network of Family Strengthening Networks (CNFSN) in 2012, and adopted by the National Family Support Network in 2013. They are the first and only standards in the country to integrate and operationalize the Principles of Family Support Practice with the Strengthening Families Frameworks and its research-based evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors. The vision is that their implementation will help ensure that families are supported and strengthened through quality …
In recent years, the Government of Liberia has made significant advances in strengthening the child protection system, in particular with alternative care. The Guidelines for Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living in Liberia paper has been produced as part of the efforts made to continue this advancement. The Guidelines are intended to provide harmonized national guidance for child welfare practitioners in order to improve the quality of family-based alternative care services in Liberia, particularly for children without appropriate care (CWAC). The Guidelines aim at…
WHAT: A set of standards for agencies that provide child care/day care services within the family home e.g. nannies, child minders, and babysitters.
WHO: Childcare agencies, professional child caregivers, parents and children. Also for policy makers and those assessing the quality of services of childcare agencies.
WHERE: These standards are for day care services in Scotland, UK. Significant modifications would be required to be able to use this document in other settings.
WHY: Serves as…
WHAT: A set of standards for early education and childcare services for children and young people up to the age of 16 years operating in the public, private and voluntary sectors, and in domestic or non-domestic premises. Covers services provided for over two hours a day and for six days or more each year. The range of services covered include:
- nursery classes;
- crèches;
- childminders;
- after school clubs;
- and playground groups.
Day care centers, further referred to as DCC, are child protection services aiming at preventing child abandonment and institutionalization, by providing, during daytime, activities such as care, education, recreation-socializing, counseling, development of independent life skills, school and professional guidance etc. for children, and support, counseling, education activities for parents or legal representatives, as well as for other individuals having children in care.
The services provided by DCC are complementary to the efforts of the child’s own family, as these derive from parental…