Child Care and Protection System Reforms

Social welfare sector reform is increasingly common, particularly in transitional countries in Central and Eastern Europe.  Increasing attention has been paid to the development of preventive community based child and family welfare programs that would, in coordination with health and education programs and social assistance, provide a range of support for vulnerable families.   

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Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Moldova and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Hungary and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Croatia and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Belgium and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Spain and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Poland and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Latvia and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Estonia and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This factsheet highlights the developments and challenges still ahead in Bosnia and Herzegovina and offers key recommendations to the EU and the national government to ensure that children are cared for in family-based settings.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children – a pan-European campaign that advocates for strengthening families and ending institutional care – released 16 country fact sheets about the progress with the transition from institutional to family- and community-based care (also known as deinstitutionalisation) in 2018.