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An adequately planned, developed, and supported social service workforce is critical to enable equitable access to social protection and basic social welfare for all, in both development and humanitarian contexts. An important step in planning the required workforce is to establish a minimum social worker to population ratio and allocate resources for workforce development and support until the minimum ratio has been achieved, with the aim of ensuring sufficient quality of services to protect clients’ rights, promote their well-being and help them achieve their full potential.
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Analiza actelor normative de reglementare a serviciilor sociale şi a finanțării acestora a fost realizată cu scopul de a elabora recomandări practice privind îmbunătățirea cadrului normativ și a mecanismului de finanțare a serviciilor sociale de prevenire a separării copilului de familie și a celor de îngrijire alternativă.
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This manual is intended to train Para-social workers who are a non-formal “workforce” that constitute the largest but yet undefined group of caregivers who provide support and services to vulnerable children and families, particularly in low and middle income countries (GSSA, 2016). These include religious and traditional leaders, community-based support groups (e.g., mothers’ clubs), Popular Opinion Leaders and Peer Champions; as well as community health workers who can be trained in child protection and welfare knowledge and skills.
The Para-Social Workers’ Training Manual is intended to…
This bulletin for professionals in the child welfare field in the U.S. explores how caseworkers can identify and support children who are victims of human trafficking as well as children who are at greater risk for future victimization. It provides background information about the issue, strategies caseworkers can use to identify and support victims and potential victims, and tools and resources that can assist caseworkers.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Myanmar, with the support of UNICEF, launched a set of guidelines and minimum standards, alongside monitoring and oversight plans, aimed at bettering the lives of children in residential care. In addition to detailing the steps that residential facilities will need to take to register and be eligible for Government support, the guidelines establish the services that these institutions will have to provide to children such as accommodation, health care, hygiene, nutrition and education, including vocational training. Minimum…
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Myanmar, with the support of UNICEF, launched a set of guidelines and minimum standards, alongside monitoring and oversight plans, aimed at bettering the lives of children in residential care. In addition to detailing the steps that residential facilities will need to take to register and be eligible for Government support, the guidelines establish the services that these institutions will have to provide to children such as accommodation, health care, hygiene, nutrition and education, including vocational training. Minimum…
The purpose of this document is to provide a framework for implementation of the National Case Management System (NCMS) for the care, protection and welfare of children in Zimbabwe. It includes core concepts and principles, standard operating procedures, and forms applicable in similar contexts. The document outlines the national case management conceptual framework, standard operating procedures in the case management system, guidance on facilitating the case management process, and roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders (including government and civil society). It also includes…
The Child Protection System Guidelines were developed to address the fragmented response to child protection in Kenya and guide actors at the county level to deliver more coordinated and professional services for children and their families.
The Guidelines are split into five sections:
- The Roles and Responsibilities of Actors in Child Protection
- Child Protection Services
- Standards of Operation in Provision of Child Protection Services
- Coordination of Child Protection Actors and Actions
- Implementation Checklist for the…
This guide, published by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, provides a summary of promising practices currently used in recruitment and retention of foster/adoptive families. It was developed to help local districts and voluntary agencies meet the challenge of providing qualified, well-prepared foster/adoptive families that can meet the needs of children and youth coming into care. The guide was written and compiled as part of the Innovations in Family Recruitment program, funded by a grant to the New York State Office of Children and Family Services from the U.S.…
This document provides the national framework for the child protection system in Kenya, developed with the intention of improving linkages between different sectors for more a more coordinated approach to protecting children. In addition to identifying and describing the objectives and guiding principles and values for the framework (provided below), this document includes background information and justification for the development of a framework, as well as the framework's structure and roles and functions of stakeholders working in child protection.
Objectives (…