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,

The 2017 country factsheets provide an update on the status of child protection and care reforms from 16 European countries that are the focus of Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign in Phase II. 

Janet Mosher & Jeffery Hewit - Journal of Law and Social Policy,

This article introduces Volume 28 of the Journal of Law and Social Policy which focuses on racism and overrepresentation of indigenous and ethnic minority children and youth in the social welfare systems.

SOS Children's Villages International,

The aim of this report from SOS Children's Villages is to increase the knowledge and understanding of the needs and rights of young people ageing out of alternative care around the world, in order to inform strategies, policies and services to improve their life chances and outcomes through appropriate preparation for leaving care as well as after-care support.

Armenian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA), USAID, MEASURE Evaluation,

The Armenian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA), with funding and technical assistance from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and MEASURE Evaluation, conducted a self-assessment of the care reform system at a participatory stakeholder workshop held in Armenia.

ChildFund International,

This case study from ChildFund's 2018 Impact Report describes the Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (DOVCU) initiative in Uganda, which aims to to improve the safety and well-being of children outside of family care. 

Family Care First,

This study and documentation of existing reintegration and alternative family care services in Cambodia was designed to build the capacity of existing service providers to take emerging good practice to scale as an increased number of residential care institutions transition.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This resource from Opening Doors for Europe's Children features an interactive map of Europe which offers a brief description of children's care reforms in highlighted countries.  

Liudmyla Kryvachuk - Labor et Educatio,

This article focuses on the study of current transformation processes occurring in Ukraine in the provision of social services to various groups of children, in particular orphan children and children deprived of parental care.

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation,

This Plan presents key findings and 23 recommendations, sub-divided into short-term, medium-term and long-term actions, for an effective and efficient implementation of foster care, adoption and family support in Cambodia.

Therese Boje Mortensen - Asia in Focus,

This study contributes to a body of scholarship on ‘localising children’s rights’ by presenting findings from an ethnographic case study of an institution for HIV-infected/affected children in Rajasthan, India.