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This one-page technical brief accompanies a Guidance Note on public expenditure and children's care. It describes how to include government strategy to promote the better care of children in the public budget.
This guidance is designed to strengthen the capacity of government agencies in low resource settings to prepare a sound budgetary framework for policies, programs and services that aim to keep children in safe and nurturing family environments. It further outlines a methodology for making the investment case for a family-focused continuum of care to the broader government, development partners and external donors.
The primary audience for this guidance is public officials and those that support their work, especially those…
This report, which was authored by Taylor Fry with support from Their Futures Matter (TFM) - a landmark reform of the Government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia to deliver improved outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and their families - and stakeholder agencies, presents key results and insights from the TFM Investment Model, an actuarial model of future outcomes and costs of providing key government services to children and young people in NSW.
The purpose of the report is to define groups of vulnerable children and young people and highlight the poor social outcomes…
These recommendations have been developed by the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign and are based on the work of the campaign since 2016, calling for a stronger commitment to maintain, strengthen and expand the use of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation reforms in Europe. "As a coalition of 124 civil society organisations working to improve the lives of vulnerable families and children in 16 European countries," says the report, "we call on the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to take forward the renewed commitment of the European Commission, as reflected in EC’s…
Executive Summary
European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) 2014—2020, along with policy innovations by the European Union, have paved the way in several Member States to make progress in reforming the child protection systems towards strengthening families and ensuring alternative family- and community-based care for children. However, not all EU Member States have benefited equally from the initiatives and many countries outside the EU did not get the opportunity to transform their child protection systems through EU funding instruments.
Across Europe, thousands of our youngest…
This report from Opening Doors for Europe's Children presents recommendations to the EU on how best to include deinstitutionalization and children's care reforms as a part of the next multiannual financial framework. "The negotiations for the next Multiannual Financial Framework present a unique opportunity for the EU to champion the transition from institutional to family and communitybased care as a human rights cause," states the report.
The EU has the chance and means to give millions of children within and beyond its borders access to a better life – no longer…
To provide objective analyses about the effects of prevention and treatment programs on child welfare outcomes, RAND researchers built a quantitative model that simulated how children enter and flow through the US child welfare system. They then used the model to project how different policy options (preventive services, family preservation treatment efforts, kinship care treatment efforts, and a policy package that combined preventive services and kinship care) would affect a child's pathway through the system, costs, and outcomes in early adulthood. This study is the first attempt to…
This research study aimed to identify and assess the cost effectiveness for existing models of care for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS (CABA) in Nepal (defined as children under 15 for the purpose of this study). The study performed a cost effective analysis for types of care and support models available for CABAs in order to provide program mangers and childcare professionals comparative economic evidence of the cost of caring for these children. Comparative analysis for cost effectiveness was done in terms of quality and overall modes of care delivery,…
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…