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Family for Every Child launched its global inter-agency guidance on supporting kinship care aimed at policy makers and programme managers during this webinar on 1 February 2024.
Kinship care is defined as care in the extended family or with friends of the family. The guidance aims to convince governments, UN agencies and NGOs of the need to prioritise support to kinship care, and outlines the key components of this support, providing examples of promising practice. In this launch webinar Family for Every Child shared an overview of the guidance, the 2 year highly consultative process that…
This guidance explains why supporting kinship care is so important and provides principles of good practice and lessons learnt from across the world.
The guidance is aimed at policymakers and programme managers working to improve the care of children. It was developed from a review of the literature, 28 key informant interviews, online and face-to face workshops with policymakers and practitioners in multiple countries, and consultations with 215 kinship carers and 196 children across seven countries.
This is a summary of a more detailed version of the guidance, which also includes…
This guidance is the first ever global, practitioner-informed guidance on how to support kinship care. The guidance is aimed at policymakers and programme managers working to improve the care of children.
Children who cannot be looked after by their parents often live with relatives or friends of the family. This care is known as kinship care. Kinship care is acknowledged as the first form of care that should be explored for children outside of parental care. It is widely used across the world. However, it is poorly supported in many countries.
This guidance explains why supporting…
The Context
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed children at a higher risk of abuse and violence at home with domestic and gender-based violence increasing around the world. This has had both immediate and longterm consequences for children. z In the first three months of the pandemic up to 85 million more girls and boys worldwide may have been exposed to physical, sexual and/ or emotional violence. School closures interrupted education for 1.6 billion children and meant that 500,000 more girls were at risk of forced marriage. Eighty per cent of studies looking at violence against women and…
In accordance with evidence from the Lancet and UNICEF recommendations on Early Childhood Development and Nurturing Care, preventive support for caregiver health and emotional well-being is key to optimal child development. Yet there is currently very little support for caregiver emotional well-being in resource-constrained low- and middle-income countries. In order to tackle this issue, UNICEF is developing a Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) training module.
The CFC module aims to build front-line workers’ skills in strengths-based counselling to increase caregivers’ confidence and help…
This guide is the first of its kind which comprehensively addresses the best practice for placing Looked After Children currently in the UK into the care of a family member(s) who lives in another country. The overarching premise of this document is to ensure that all options are explored for a child in care and to provide local authorities with the tools and knowledge so that family members overseas are not unnecessarily ruled out as potential carers for children in care in the UK, particularly if this option may be in the best interests of the child.
This handbook is meant as a reference guide to enlighten grandparents and relative caregivers on resources and information that may be available to them and their family.
Both inside and outside the child welfare system, the probability that African American children will live in grandfamilies is more than double that of the overall population, with one in five African American children living in grandfamilies at some point during their childhood.
Over the last few decades, drug epidemics, hurricanes and other tragedies have both created African American grandfamilies and challenged existing ones. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest such crisis. As of mid-May 2020, African Americans in almost every state collecting racial data have higher rates of infection…
Both inside and outside the foster care system, American Indian and Alaska Native children are more likely to live in grandfamilies—families in which grandparents, other adult family members or close family friends are raising children with no parents in the home—than any other racial or ethnic group.
Over the last few decades, drug epidemics, natural disasters and other tragedies have both created grandfamilies and challenged existing ones. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis to have elevated the needs of these families, and in particular the needs of American Indian and Alaska…
‘Children Safe, Family Together', the new family and kin care model outlined in this paper forms an integral part of the overall strategy being currently implemented by Territory Families (TF) to transform Out-of-Home Care in the Northern Territory (NT). The strategy addresses worrying trend data pointing to the significant over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the NT child protection system. The strategy also seeks to reinforce the voices of Aboriginal organisations and communities for the Out-of-Home Care sector (OOHC) in the NT to honour the…