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On Wednesday, 9 October the International Conference ‘Throughout time, across borders: Navigating child protection and restoring family links’ will bring together ISS members and external professionals from all over the world to discuss topics related to migrant children, search for origins in intercountry adoption and surrogacy cases, family-based care, mediation in child abduction cases, and the future of social work and child protection.
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child is seeking a highly qualified Research Consultant to develop a thematic report on harmful practices affecting children across Africa.
Join Changemakers for Children to launch the first ever Global Kinship Care Week, which will run from 7th - 13th October 2024. Sign up for the webinar What is Kinship Care? Introducing Global Kinship Care Week on 2 October at 10:00 UTC
The Transitioning Residential Care Working Group, part of the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative, invites practitioners, advocates, organizations, and donors supporting and promoting residential care service transitions to the launch webinar of the Divesting of Residential Care Guidelines and Transition Monitoring Tool.
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.
Attention child protection professionals, share your insights on alternative care in humanitarian settings. Your feedback will shape new resources and updates to the ACE Toolkit which is critical for both humanitarian and development actors working in alternative care and care reform. Deadline is September 27.
This learning brief explores the formalization and replication of Kafaalah, an Islamic practice of caring for orphans and vulnerable children, as an alternative family-based care option in Kenya.
This learning brief documents the process of care reform policy development and financing improvements in Nyamira County, Kenya, following the enactment of the Child Policy and the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2023.
For Moldova, the tool was adapted to fit the local context by adjusting terminology and phrasing of some questions and responses, and removing questions that were not relevant, such as those about school fees. The survey was translated into Romanian and Russian.
In Guatemala, the survey in 2023 targeted all families who had participated in a case management process with CTWWC due to a reintegrating child or a child identified as at risk of separation, as well as a sample of households where the caregiver had attended a parenting school.
