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As the only formal entity at the commune level responsible for women and children in Cambodia, commune committees for women and children (CCWCs) play an important role in protecting children in community. This handbook highlights the role CCWCs can play in support for the implementing the Action Plan for improving child care, which is being carried out in five priority provinces -- Phnom Penh, Battambang, Siem Reap, Kandal and Preah Sihanouk. The Action Plan intends to safely return 30 per cent of children in residential care to their…
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Myanmar, with the support of UNICEF, launched a set of guidelines and minimum standards, alongside monitoring and oversight plans, aimed at bettering the lives of children in residential care. In addition to detailing the steps that residential facilities will need to take to register and be eligible for Government support, the guidelines establish the services that these institutions will have to provide to children such as accommodation, health care, hygiene, nutrition and education, including vocational training. Minimum…
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Myanmar, with the support of UNICEF, launched a set of guidelines and minimum standards, alongside monitoring and oversight plans, aimed at bettering the lives of children in residential care. In addition to detailing the steps that residential facilities will need to take to register and be eligible for Government support, the guidelines establish the services that these institutions will have to provide to children such as accommodation, health care, hygiene, nutrition and education, including vocational training. Minimum…
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…
In 2001, the Government of Zambia launched a child care reform program called the Child Care Upgrading Program (CCUP) through the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, with the support of UNICEF. The program sought changes to the child care system through five primary activities: (1) identifying all child care facilities in Zambia, (2) registering all child care facilities, (3) collecting information on child care facilities and their employees and establishing a national database, (4) upgrading skill levels of staff in child care facilities, and (5) developing and…
The Care Reform Initiative launched in 2006 to update and enforce the Regulations and Standards for the Operation of Residential Care Setting in Ghana is a joint venture between the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) and OrphanAid Africa. These Standards are part of a reform initiative programme that involves the provision of various forms of support by OrphanAid Africa and other partners; to enhance the capacity of DSW to encourage family based care. The aim of the programme is to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort, and that when it is used, these establishments comply…
These Regulations and Tools are designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions, thereby protecting children and providing opportunities for those living in alternative care. They were adopted in 2010 and provide the basis through which the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) will regulate all child welfare institutions, including orphanages and alternative care arrangements such as foster care and kinship.
An outline of the processes involved in creating and maintaining a childcare organization, including creating a charter, protection of child rights, placement, care, health, education, reunification and monitoring.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security recognizes it has an obligation to set out a framework for childcare in policy and law and to ensure that childcare provision meets minimum standards in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Progress is being made in developing legislation to protect children which will eventually set out the legal framework for Minimum Standards.
These Standards represent the development of a practice quality framework for looking after children who need placement in a Children’s Home. These standards will contribute to the…
Day care centers for children with disabilities, further referred to as DCCD, are child protection services aiming at preventing child abandonment and institutionalization, by providing, during daytime, activities such as care, education, habilitation-rehabilitation, 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 DCCD are complementary to the…