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In 2015, the European Parliament called on the European Commission and the European Union Member States, “in view of the weakening of public services, to introduce a Child Guarantee so that every child in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition, as part of a European integrated plan to combat child poverty”. Following the subsequent request by the Parliament to the Commission to implement a Preparatory Action to explore the potential scope of a Child Guarantee for vulnerable children, the Commission ordered a study to…
This report explores options for young people aging out of residential care in the UK (“care leavers”) and the potential challenges and costs of effective implementation of those options. The report identifies four options: (1) care-leavers stay in the same residential care home until the age of 21, (2) care-leavers live in a separate building but on the same grounds as the residential home they were living in, until the age of 21, (3) care leavers live in a different house until the age of 21 (like “supported lodgings”) where not everyone is from care, or (4) care leavers “stay close” to…
Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Many of today’s cash transfer programs operate as donor-funded pilot studies which are not always modelled at the design stage to estimate their cost and impact on household poverty when run at scale. Basic ‘microsimulation’ tools, widely used in developed economies since the 1960s, are necessary in order to make the calculations needed to model the effects of social welfare reforms or tax reforms, and can also be applied to cash transfer schemes in…
WHAT: This folder contains guidance and planning and assessment tools to implement reform of national social care financing from institutionalized care to a family and community-based framework.
- Redirecting Resources to Community Based Services: A Concept Paper: A comparative analysis of social care financing systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, with guidance on transitioning to family based care.
- Executive Summary of the above concept paper
- Introduction to the toolkit…
This report from the International Labor Organization is the first in a series of the World Social Security Reports whose chief aim is to provide the results of regular statistical monitoring of the state and developments of social security in the world. It presents the knowledge available on social security coverage in different parts of the world, identifies existing coverage gaps and examines the scale of countries’ investments in social security. Finally, it focuses on social security responses in the context of…
This workbook aims to introduce service managers and accountants to the ideas, concepts and methodologies of unit costing, to help them establish a price for their service per child and per unit of time, eg per day. This will help both service managers in time, when a system of contracting out services is introduced (eg where a government body asks a service provider to provide care for a specified number of children).
This report analyses and comments upon the expenditures from public funds on the residential care of children in the Republic of Moldova for the financial year 2005. The analysis uses outturn data for 2005 supplied by the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
Overall the analysis of expenditures reveals a system of residential care that is:
- costly;
- poorly managed;
- follows no consistent policies;
- whose terms of reference are widely abused (21% of all children are day pupils and…
Evidence points to a current shortage of at least 10,000 foster carers across the UK. There are also concerns that children in public care experience too many moves, have very poor educational outcomes and do not enjoy the life chances of other children. Placements are often made in haste, and the shortage of foster carers means that too many children have to live many miles from their family, friends and school. When placements break down or children have to be moved from temporary placements with foster carers when they have begun to settle, the risk of long-term difficulties increases.…