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The national child participation guide for Uganda - Creating an environment for children to be heard
This is a National Guide for the participation of children which has been developed in consonance with Art. 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). The Guide is intended to facilitate meaningful participation of children from the family level through to national, regional and international levels. The aim is to target the various audiences in the different settings. This Guide is designed to be an invaluable instrument specifically for those working at institutions/organisations including schools and health care providers; legal institutions; probation and…
The Health Information and Standards Directorate in Ireland's HIQA has launched a public consultation on Draft National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres. This consultation aims to gather the views of children living in residential care, their families and people involved in caring for children in residential care on the draft national standards. This feedback will be considered and will inform the development of the final National Standards.
The public consultation will run until 5pm on Thursday 02 November 2017.
Purpose and scope of the…
This Charter lists the promises that care leavers want the central and local governments to make. According to the Charter, promises and principles help in decision making but do not replace laws; rather, they give guidance to show how laws are designed to be interpreted. The key principles in this Charter remain constant through changes in Legislation, Regulation and Guidance. Care leavers urge local authorities to use these principles when they make decisions about young people’s lives. The Charter for Care Leavers is designed to raise expectations, aspirations and understanding of what…
Recognizing the need for a consistent and standardized framework for the provision of child protection services, the Government of Western Australia’s Department for Child Protection established the following tool. The Department has a legislative role in safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children, and to provide for their protection and care in circumstances where their parents have not given, or are unlikely or unable to give, that protection and care. In recognition of this responsibility, it became evident that the sector would be best suited by one set of standards applicable…
Day care centers, further referred to as DCC, are child protection services aiming at preventing child abandonment and institutionalization, by providing, during daytime, activities such as care, education, recreation-socializing, counseling, development of independent life skills, school and professional guidance etc. for children, and support, counseling, education activities for parents or legal representatives, as well as for other individuals having children in care.
The services provided by DCC are complementary to the efforts of the child’s own family, as these derive from parental…