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The Place of Foster Care in the Continuum of Care Choices: A Review of the Evidence for Policymakers
This report from Family for Every Child explores rising concerns about the expansion of foster care services in low and middle income countries, including the lack of knowledge and understanding on how to implement effective, safe foster care programmes and the use of foster care when family separation is avoidable or when it is not the most appropriate form of alternative care. The report begins to fill the gap in understanding through an exploration of the literature and interviews with key global and country-level experts. It aims to assist in both states’ and NGOs’ decisions on whether to…
This report - produced by SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, and the University of Malawi - is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It considers common challenges to implementing the Guidelines identified in the eight countries and provides a platform for effective advocacy to promote every child’s right to quality care. At the end of each chapter, the report provides…
On the 22nd October 2013, three Latin American presidents (Costa Rica, Honduras and Paraguay) gave their support to a new regional campaign in the Latin American and Caribbean region launched to end the placement of children under three years of age in institutions. This ‘Call to action’ is led by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children (MMI-CLAC), the Latin American Foster Care Network (RELAF), the …
One of today’s great challenges for many countries resides in preventing the separation of the child from his/her parents and in the development of an individualized and permanent family plan for children placed in institutions or in a foster family. Besides maintaining the child in the family of origin and the prevention of his/her institutionalization, family reintegration constitutes the most desirable permanent solution.
As guiding principles in this regard, international law provides that family solutions must be envisaged as a priority and domestic measures must be given preference…
Millions of children throughout the world are currently in, or in need of, out-of-home care because their parents are unavailable or unable to care for them:
- In the USA there are 600,000 children in the foster-care system alone (CWLA);
- Some 1.5 million children are reported to be in out-of-home care in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, including 900,000 in residential facilities (UNICEF);
- In Africa, Asia and Latin America, some 9.5 million children whose parents have both died from HIV/AIDS are looked after by relatives or others…