Over the past year, Eurochild has worked with its members, UNICEF, and over 50 national experts across Europe on the DataCare Project to map how EU Member States and the UK currently collect data on the situation of children in alternative care.
This report presents the interim findings of this project, based on the analysis of 14 countries who participated in the study at the end of 2020. The interim findings centre around four core findings:
- National officially published data can be mapped onto internationally recognised categories of alternative care.
- There are several important gaps in the published data from surveyed countries. This would be an important area for the EU to support improvements in data collection.
- Many countries are in the process of reforming their child protection data systems, suggesting a potential demand for mutual learning and support throughout the EU.
- Countries show promising practices on aggregation of data from sub-national to national level.
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