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The G.A.IN. 'Guardianship advanced Instruments for child protection in Europe' project, funded by the European Commission, involved 4 countries - Italy, Greece, Hungary and Belgium - with the aim of ensuring better protection and respect for the rights of migrant children, by strengthening the guardianship system.
This manual seeks to contribute to this objective by providing key information and guidance for guardians and tutors of unaccompanied foreign minors. The manual is written in Italian.
Attaining legal permanence is not always about finding a new family. In some instances, it is about legally re-defining roles of existing family members or establishing legal relationships with other adults who have a family-like relationship with children through guardianship. Although different from adoption, the adjustment to these newly defined responsibilities can be just as complicated, including the need to address children’s trauma and the changes in family dynamics. Social service professionals can better serve guardianship families by learning about the dynamics of the family’s…
In 2015/16, over 3,600 special guardianship orders were made in relation to children in the care system, while nearly a fifth of foster placements were with family and friends carers. Undertaking a connected person / family and friends assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children. It is to be used by assessing social workers to complete this assessment using the CoramBAAF Form C for England, published in 2017…
This issue of GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy includes several articles related to kinship care in the United States, including:
This Handbook produced by Save the Children aims to provide guidance, primarily for Save the Children staff, NGO partners, Community Child Protection Groups and community volunteers in Myanmar, although the authors hope that it will also be used by responsible government bodies. It is based on the outcome of a workshop organized by Save the Children in Yangon, May 2013 and is informed by the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2009). It clarifies that the intention of the Handbook is not to formalise kinship…
This booklet from SOS Children’s Villages International was created for young people to explain in a simple manner the main points of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. The booklet helps its young audience think about the principles of alternative care and what these mean for children and families in different situations. By recommending and instructing actions children and youth can take under each principle, the booklet encourages its audience to advocate for adequate care and protection for…
This handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ was developed by CELSIS under an initiative of the Working Group on Children without Parental Care of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the project’s Steering Committee which included representatives from ISS, SOS Children’s Villages International, Family for Every Child, ATD Fourth World, Better Care Network, RELAF, and UNICEF.
It is designed as a tool for legislators, policy-makers, and all…
Zero to Three, a US based non profit organization working to inform, train and support professionals, policy makers and parents to improve the lives of infants and toddlers, combined the evidence from research on early childhood development with feedback from focus groups held across the country with families, friends, and neighbors who act as care givers in order to develop a range of simple and practical resources to strengthen care practices with children between the ages of 0 and 3.
The current website lists nine critical tools and resources which are described briefly as follows…
The manual, What Works in Tackling Child Abuse and Neglect?, is the main outcome of the European Commission Daphne III programme, involving regional exchanges and research to bring together knowledge on what works in tackling child abuse. Five country reports (Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden, and the Netherlands) were developed reviewing research findings and a comprehensive report compiled about strategies, measurements, and management of tackling the whole range of child abuse and neglect, from prevention to treatment. A study compiling practice-based knowledge on tackling…
Whilst international organizations and countries are acknowledging the challenges street children face, there is still a belief that these children are difficult to work with and cannot be reintegrated into a family setting. Retrak’s experience shows that this is not the case: over one thousand children have been returned to the care of family members through Retrak’s work in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda through the dedication of time, resources and a skilled social workforce.
Retrak’s technical brief on family reintegration for children living on the streets, acknowledges the…