Portugal

This one-page document identifies some difficulties that youth face in leaving institutional care. Offers recommendations to assist financial, emotional, and educational preparation for emancipation.

Practical suggestions for supporting AIDS orphans in child-headed households based on experiences in Uganda. Includes lessons learned and key recommendations.

Describes and analyses abuse in institutional care using a case study of a home for girls in the developed world.

Guidelines for caregivers of children in emergency situations, with a focus on the role of play in childhood learning and development. Includes a comprehensive list of suggested activities.

A three-page document outlining how to recognize signs of abuse, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, or neglect.

A brief literature review of the key findings of academic research into the effects of institutional care for vulnerable children. Contains information on the negative effects of institutional care.

Minimum standards for day care centers in Romania.

Outlines minimum standards for the operation of a day care center for children with disabilities in Romania.

This report assesses the expenditure which is required to transform foster care services across the UK, in order to give children in public care the same opportunities to have a successful future as other children. Contains relevant statistics and social welfare system reform recommendations.

Provides a framework for analysis of community-based social welfare services and linkages with government structures. Includes analysis of alternative care provision, de-institutionalization, programming for children with disabilities, standards of care, and overall social welfare sector reform.