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Children who experience deprivation of liberty are distinguished by a high prevalence of complex, co-occurring health needs that necessitate coordinated, high-quality healthcare. Emerging evidence of very poor health outcomes after deprivation of liberty suggests that in addition to ongoing efforts to prevent detention, more should be done to improve the health of these children, both in detention and after they return to the community. Setting and implementing minimum standards for healthcare in detention can help to drive improvements in the quality of care, and thereby improve health…
The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to provide a standard and consistent approach to case conferencing as part of a comprehensive case management approach utilized during decision-making processes for children. The SOPs should be utilized by institutions (e.g. Charitable Children’s Institutions, or CCIs) and organizations as well as other actors engaged in decision-making around children’s care and protection.
The objectives of the SOP are to:
- Outline an approach for structured conversations and decision-making around solutions for specific cases of…
Introduction
Since 2013, hundreds of thousands of children have arrived in Europe, many travelling unaccompanied and separated from their families. Although, the total number of children arriving decreased by almost 70% between 2016 and 2018, the number of unaccompanied and separated children increased by 31% during this period. Some countries received more children than others – but in Europe, Italy is known to have received the majority of refugee and migrant children.
Refugee and migrant children are highly vulnerable, more so without parental care. The level of vulnerability…
The 2012 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) were formulated between January 2011 and September 2012 by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), an inter-agency working group composed of child protection practitioners, other humanitarians, academics, and policy makers. Altogether, over 400 individuals from 30 agencies and 40 countries around the world contributed…
Introduction
This document offers inspiration and guidance for drafting an interagency agreement which formalises multidisciplinary and interagency (MDIA) team collaboration between agencies involved in Barnahus (a child-friendly, interdisciplinary and multi-agency centre for child victims and witnesses where children could be interviewed and medically examined for forensic purposes, comprehensively assessed and receive all relevant therapeutic services from appropriate professionals). It is based on the…
In 2008, UNHCR released the UNHCR Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (2008 BID Guidelines), and added its accompanying Field Handbook in partnership with IRC in 2011. For the last 10 years, these tools have provided staff and partners with practical guidance, processes and tools on applying the best interests principle in decisions affecting children at risk in particular children who are separated from their parents and families. Building on the practice of strengthening national child protection systems and on 10 years of implementation of UNHCR’s Guidelines…
Drawing on international and European law and guidance and the Barnahus model, this document introduces ten good practice standards, the “European Barnahus Standards”, for multidisciplinary and interagency services for child victims and witnesses of violence in Europe adapted to the child. The key purpose of the standards is to provide a common operational and organisational framework that promotes practice which prevents retraumatisation, while securing valid testimonies for Court, and complies with children’s rights to protection, assistance and child-friendly justice.
The standards are…
This report presents the preliminary findings from an ongoing project undertaken by 4Children that seeks to identify key opportunities to incorporate violence prevention and response interventions within priority PEPFAR Program Areas at clinical and community levels. The initial focus is on HIV testing and services (HTS) and pediatric care and treatment — a priority identified at an introductory meeting with selected members of the OVC and Gender Technical Working Group Advisors held in July 2015. The findings presented here draw on conclusions from the introductory meeting, a desk review and…
This youth-friendly version of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children was developed by a working group of the I Matter International Youth Council of SOS Children’s Villages International. This document does not use the legal text of the Guidelines, but rather, is an interpretation of the Guidelines from members of the International Youth Council.
El presente Informe Temático profundiza el análisis del contexto de la región de las Américas en el tema del derecho de los niños a vivir en una familia y reitera su preocupación por la grave situación en la que siguen viviendo miles de niños en el hemisferio. Para revertir este estado actual de cosas, y prevenir que los niños se vean privados de su derecho a vivir y crecer en su familia y a ser cuidados y criados en un entorno familiar, y a la vez que garantizar su derecho a una vida digna y libre de toda forma de violencia, el presente Informe establece los estándares aplicables en…