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The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children – a pan-European campaign of leading international and national civil society organisations – welcomes the EU’s continued commitment to end the era of institutional care in Europe and calls for an expansion of this commitment to continue progress with national reforms of the child protection systems in all European countries.
As a coalition representing 124 civil society organisations working towards improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children living in institutional care across Europe, we have three key demands to the European Union in…
This document discusses the comprehensive approach used by Save the Children to promote synergy between personal autonomy and economic development. Through this approach, Save the Children hopes to protect children and adolescents from violence, ensure access to education, employment, and enable them to choose to delay parenthood.
This program operates through three thematic areas: personal empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, and economic rights. This document provides an overview of Save the Children’s comprehensive approach by country. The countries included in this report…
Executive Summary
Across Europe hundreds of thousands of children are growing up in institutional care. The consequences are devastating for children, devastating for families and ultimately, devastating for society as a whole.
The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children Campaign seeks to improve the quality of life of children and young people in, at risk of entering, or leaving institutional care across Europe by promoting the transition from institutional to family-based care, also called deinstitutionalisation (DI). Through coordinated advocacy at national and EU level…
The stigma, discrimination and diminished life chances faced by children who are abused, exploited and neglected exacerbates inequity, and in general these boys and girls are not able to contribute to economies to their full potential. In addition to the damaging impacts on children themselves, the negative effects of child maltreatment on human capital, combined with the costs associated with responding to abuse and neglect, means that inadequate care and protection also hinders economic growth.
A group of leading international and national Non-Governmental Organizations working to ensure…
This document is the seventh, and final, chapter of Doing Better for Children: The Way Forward, produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the policy debate on child well-being, synthesising the previous chapters and drawing on the existing research and policy literature. It examines the wide range of policy choices confronting governments as they seek to improve child well-being and offers a policy synthesis of broad recommendations to enhance child well-being across the OECD.
The policy recommendations for improving…