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The OPT Humanitarian Crisis
This section includes news related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Gaza and other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This section is updated regularly.
COVID-19 Resource Center
Resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
Transforming Children's Care
Visit the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative, aimed at establishing more strategic sector-wide collaboration.
Transition Hub
Visit the resource hub on transforming systems of care, including the transitioning of residential care services.
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Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
Concerns have been raised after it emerged that the PSNI has visited children’s homes on more than 5,000 occasions in the past 12 months and made almost 300 arrests.
The purpose of the tool is to assist technical support practitioners to closely track and monitor the progress of residential care services transitions they are involved in. It can be used as a workplan to guide the implementation of a transition strategy, allowing practitioners to identify relevant transition activities, set progress-related goals, and monitor progress against those goals.
This Human Rights Watch report documents how children with disabilities in Gaza face dangerous situations and additional difficulties as they struggle to comply with frequent evacuation orders and a lack of effective advance warning of attacks.
The Transitioning Residential Care Working Group, part of the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative, launched the Divesting of Residential Care Guidelines and the Transition Monitoring Tool for practitioners, advocates, organizations, and donors supporting and promoting residential care service transitions.
The webinar featured short presentations on the tools and a panel of practitioners and donors who shared their perspectives on the utility of the tools.