Family for Every Child

Family for Every Child is a global network of local and national civil society organisations working together to improve the lives of vulnerable children around the world and supporting children to grow up in caring families, safe from exploitation and abuse. 

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Family for Every Child supports hundreds of thousands of children and families around the world by taking locally-led action in our communities. Underpinned by our experience of working on the front line, we also develop research, exchange practice, help in crises, and campaign for rights around the world.

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Schools that care: A review of linkages between children’s education and care
Camilla Jones – Family for Every Child

This report presents the key findings of a scoping study on the links between education and children’s care. The study involved a literature review in English, French and Spanish; key informant interviews; and consultations with 170 children, carers, teachers and other stakeholders in Guyana, India, Russia and Rwanda.

The Place of Foster Care in the Continuum of Care Choices: A Review of the Evidence for Policymakers
Ghazal Keshavarzian, Family for Every Child

This report from Family for Every Child explores rising concerns about the expansion of foster care services in low and middle income countries, it begins to fill the gap in understanding, and aims to assist in both states’ and NGOs’ decisions on whether to invest in foster care, and in the kinds of supportive services needed to make foster care safe and effective.

Strategies for Delivering Safe and Effective Foster Care: A Review of the Evidence for Those Designing and Delivering Foster Care Programmes
Ghazal Keshavarzian, Family for Every Child

This report from Family for Every Child begins to fill the gap in understanding on how to deliver effective, safe foster care programmes through an exploration of the literature and interviews with experts.

Researching the linkages between social protection and children’s care in Ghana: LEAP and its effects on child well-being, care and family cohesion
Family for Every Child and the Centre for Social Protection

This report was written by Keetie Roelen and Helen Karki Chettri from the Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), with inputs and support from Family for Every Child and Challenging Heights, Ghana. The report investigates the links between child wellbeing, children’s care, family cohesion and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP), a national social protection scheme in Ghana which aims to reduce extreme poverty in the country and is centred on providing cash transfers to the most vulnerable.

Going Home: Children’s Reintegration in Mexico, Moldova, and Nepal
Dr Gillian Mann - Family for Every Child

This report from Family for Every Child and partners summarises research on children’s reintegration that took place in Mexico, Moldova and Nepal from 2011 to 2014.

Going Home: The Reintegration of Child Domestic Workers in Nepal
Dr Helen Baños Smith - CWISH, with support from Family for Every Child

This report documents a study of the reintegration of child domestic workers in Nepal.

Why Care Matters: The importance of adequate care for children and society
Family For Every Child, Corinna Csaky

This report highlights the needs of children without adequate family care, the impact inadequate care on children and society, and why family care is important. In this report, Family for Every Child also issues several recommendations for those in all sectors of society and an example of care reform from Brazil. 

Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children’s Care in Rwanda: The VUP and Its Effects on Child Wellbeing, Care, and Family Reunification
Keetie Roelen & Helen Shelmerdine from the Centre for Social Protection (CSP) with support from Emily Delap from Family for Every Child and Stephen Devereux from the CSP at IDS.

This report features the results of, and recommendations based on, a study conducted in Rwanda which investigates the links between the cash transfer program “Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP),” child well-being, and children’s care and family reunification.

Strategies to Ensure Sustainable Reintegration of Children Without Parental Care
Dr Anita Schrader McMillan - JUCONI, with support from Family for Every Child

This paper reports on the Mexican arm of Family for Every Child’s three-country study on strategies to ensure the sustainable reintegration of children without parental care.

Identifying Basic Characteristics of Formal Alternative Care Settings For Children: A Discussion Paper
Better Care Network, Family for Every Child, International Social Service, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International

The discussion paper provides an overview of existing definitions of formal care within the UN Guidelines and a summary of the basic characteristics identified for each, together with explanations for the proposed characteristics.