Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative

Transforming Children's Care Collaborative

Building on joint efforts advocating for the 2019 UNGA Resolution and the Key Recommendations, and clear interest expressed by a broad group of actors to strengthen sectoral cooperation and collaboration, Better Care Network together with partners established the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative. The Collaborative aims to establish more strategic sector-wide collaboration spanning the global to the local level and inclusive of a wider range of stakeholders. It aims to enable organisations engaged in child protection and care reform to agree on common principles and approaches, leverage and build on one another’s work, secure greater and more sustainable impact, contribute to a shared learning agenda and undertake joint advocacy. 

The Collaborative is open to all actors involved in children’s care, with active participation of self advocates (care leavers; parent advocates); disability organizations; faith-based organizations; local organizations/CBOs and other relevant communities and sectors. 

There are a number of exciting opportunities for you to immediately get involved in shaping the Collaborative. 

Thus far, a number of Working Groups have been created, including:

  • Coalition-Building Working Group: This broad and inclusive working group has been established for the interim development phase of the platform. The group will be responsible for: defining the vision and objective for the platform; establishing guidelines for inclusive membership; setting up ways of working and procedures; developing a transitional governance structure and expanding the platform’s membership through outreach into different segments of the care sector. 
  • Evidence for Impact Working Group: This group aims to bring together researchers, measurement experts and practitioners working on establishing data systems on children’s care to foster a strategic and well-coordinated approach to research and data in the sector, with a focus on generating and applying ‘evidence for impact’ on policy, systems and practice globally. 

  • Transitioning Residential Care Working Group: This group brings together existing initiatives and discussions around different aspects of transitioning residential care services. The working group is currently collaborating on the development of an open source transitioning services framework to guide future collaboration and is open to organisations and practitioners with direct experience and involvement in transitioning individual residential care services. 

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  • Global Policy and Advocacy Working Group: This working group aims to bring together a range of advocacy initiatives to support the implementation of global commitments towards children’s care and child protection and care systems reform. It builds on advocacy efforts behind the 2019 UNGA Rights of the Child resolution, and on the Key Recommendations to strengthen consensus and address key areas of policy disagreement to enable more effective advocacy at global, regional, and national levels, with concrete examples and evidence from diverse settings. 

  • Other Working Groups: Members of the Collaborative are invited to suggest a topic for a future working group or subgroup and/or identify an issue or gap that needs to be addressed through the collaborative platform. New working groups and subgroups will be established as need and interest are identified by members and information shared with the wider group via email.

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Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform,

This webinar, the sixth in the Transforming Children's Care Webinar Series, provided an introduction to trauma-informed care from various perspectives and vantage points.

Know-How Center Bulgaria, Children and Family Initiative, and Changing the Way We Care,

These presentations from Know-How Center Bulgaria, Children and Family Initiative, and Changing the Way We Care, were delivered during the September 30, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was translating research evidence into action. 

Hope and Homes for Children, Miracle Foundation and Railway Children,

These presentations from Hope and Homes for Children, Miracle Foundation and Railway Children were delivered during the August 20, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was child and family outcome measurement.

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform,

This webinar, the fifth in the Transforming Children's Care Webinar Series focused on a new study ('Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions: Insights and Implications for Advocacy and Awareness Raising'). The study, comprising 21 semi-structured interviews across seven focus countries, explores the effect of COVID-19 on a small number of privately run and funded residential care institutions.

Alternative Care Thailand, UNICEF,

These presentations from UNICEF and Alternative Care Thailand were delivered during the July 9, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was on care measurement initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa and Thailand.

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, Child Identity,

This webinar, the fourth in a series from the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, explored the importance of protecting the child’s right to identity in how it is created, how it may be modified and/or falsified in alternative care as well as the need to preserve information about the child’s identity, notably family relations.

UNICEF, Eurochild,

These presentations from UNICEF and Eurochild were delivered during the June 25 2021 workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force. The focus of the workshop was the development of the residential care toolkit (led by UNICEF) and care measurement in the EU region.

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform,

In this webinar, members of the International Parent Advocacy Network discussed parent advocacy and presented the literature review International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare: Strengthening Children's Care and Protection Through Parent Participation. The webinar included presentations from parent advocates who shared examples of parent advocacy in their contexts.

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform,

This webinar is the second in a series for the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. In the webinar, Philip Goldman from Maestral International presented new guidance on Public Expenditure and Children’s Care produced by Changing the Way We Care, which is designed to strengthen the capacity of government agencies in low resource settings to prepare a sound budgetary framework.

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform,

Este seminario web es el segundo de una serie de la Plataforma de colaboración global Transforming Children's Care. En el seminario web, Philip Goldman de Maestral International presentó una nueva guía sobre gasto público y cuidado de los niños producida por Changing the Way We Care, que está diseñada para fortalecer la capacidad de las agencias gubernamentales en países de bajos recursos para preparar un marco presupuestario sólido.