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This roadmap to ending the detention of children in immigration from the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts outlines the commitments, examples of practice, reference documents, and guidelines for each stage of the strategy from June 2019 to June 2025. Stages include:
- Developing national action plans for ending child immigration detention
- Reporting on the number of children held in immigration detention each year
- Developing and implementing child-sensitive alternatives to immigration detentio
- Reporting on progress in…
This document describes the 2017-2020 strategy of Family For Every Child. The Strategy paper highlights the mission and vision of Family For Every Child, provides examples of past work and key lessons, and describes its approach and goals to create change toward better care for children.
The current 2017-2020 goals for change are:
- Enabling children to grow up in permanent, safe and caring families
- Ensuring a range of high-quality alternative care choices
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This policy outlines the issues of voluntourism and orphanages in relation to child protection, and states the criteria by which organisations (private commercial companies, social enterprises and charities) involved in voluntourism activities may apply to join The Code. This document is primarily intended for use by the Secretariat of The Code and Local Code Representatives (LCRs) when assessing a membership application from an organisation engaged in…
The 21-22 June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation on Violence against Children (VAC) in All Care Settings was the second in a series of regional consultations focused on engaging experts within the region to collaborate, share learning, and formulate a set of regional recommendations for key actors to effectively address violence against children within all care settings,…
Hundreds of thousands of children across Europe are growing up in institutional care. The consequences are devastating for children, families and society. Opening Doors for Europe’s Children – a pan-European campaign advocating for strengthening families and ending institutional care – has created a new generation of country fact sheets that document the evidence on…
» A grandes rasgos, se identifica como “grandes instituciones” o macroinstituciones a centros de alojamiento que albergan una gran cantidad de niños y niñas. Sin embargo, la cantidad de niños alojados no es la única variable que define lo que se considera una gran institución: la relación entre capacidad y población real, y otras condiciones de funcionamiento que laceran los derechos fundamentales de quienes se encuentran internados también son parámetros indicadores de que se está frente a una macroinstitución.
» La permanencia de niños, niñas y adolescentes en macroinstituciones en…
In preparation for the Expert Meeting on Alternative Care and Family Support in the Baltic Sea Region - held in Tallinn, Estonia in May 2015 - the Children’s Unit in cooperation with the Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk conducted a mapping of family support and alternative care services in the Baltic Sea Region Member States. The objective of this mapping was to analyse the situation, assess the achievements since the 2005 Ministerial Forum and to identify relevant opportunities and challenges for the future.
This report documents, assesses, and analyses the state of…
Government representatives, experts and professionals from the Baltic Sea Region including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden and wider Europe gathered at a two-day expert meeting in Tallinn, Estonia and, together, endorsed a set of recommendations and action plan on alternative care and family support on 6 May 2015. This report provides an overview of the meeting and the presentations and discussions that took place on the topics of regional cooperation on alternative care, promoting quality care for children in the…
This background paper was developed as part of a regional study which gathered relevant data and information on family support and alternative care in the eleven Member States of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS): Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation and Sweden. The aim of this study was to identify progress and challenges in preventing family separation and safeguarding the rights of children in alternative care in the region. This background paper offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the situation of…
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…