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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Universal Periodic Review – Bulgaria 2015: Lumos’ recommendations to protect the human rights of children in the deinstitutionalisation process in Bulgaria
Georgette Mulheir, Chief Executive - Lumos,

In this paper, Lumos reviews Bulgaria’s national strategy on deinstitutionalisation, adopted in 2010, and provides recommendations for ensuring the rights of children in the process.

Children in Haiti: from institutions to families
Lumos,

This report, first distributed at the seminar co-hosted by Lumos and USAID on the challenge of institutionalization in Haiti, provides some background information on the effects of institutionalisation as well as the particular situation in Haiti.

Children without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event (Video)
Save the Children,

This video briefly recaps the Africa-Wide Children without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event hosted by Save the Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 20-23 April 2015.

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Where Are We and Where Do We Want to Be with Care Reform? The Global Picture
Save the Children,

This presentation provides an overview of the status of care reform efforts in Africa. It identifies where care reform is underway as well as areas in which reform is still needed. The presentation looks ahead to what is needed to accelerate the momentum on care reform in the region.

Tracking Progress Initiative Presentation from the Africa-Wide Children Without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event 2015
Hope and Homes for Children and Better Care Network,

This presentation was delivered at the Africa-Wide Children Without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event: “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” held in Ethiopia on 20-23 April 2015. It provides an overview of the Tracking Progress Initiative, which includes the development of a tool to measure country progress in implementing the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.

Children Without Appropriate Care Africa-Wide Program Learning Event Session Summary
Save the Children,

This document provides an overview of the topics covered in the various sessions during the  three-day program learning event “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” held in Ethiopia on 20-23 April 2015.

Shaping Our Care Reform Work Across Africa - Program Learning Event
Save the Children,

Various stakeholders, including Better Care Network, met at an Africa wide Program Learning Event on 20-23 April 2015, organized by Save the Children, under the theme “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” which brought together country, regional and global experts.

“Shaping Our Care Reform Work Across Africa:” Program Learning Event Agenda
Save the Children,

Various stakeholders, including Better Care Network, met at an Africa wide Program Learning Event on 20-23 April 2015, organized by Save the Children, under the theme “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” which brought together country, regional and global experts. This document includes the agenda for the 3-day event.

A Child’s right to a Family: Deinstitutionalization of Child Welfare in Russia as Ideology and Practice
Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Jouko Nikula - XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development,

This paper, presented at the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development in Moscow on 8 April 2015, outlines a research project analyzing ongoing foster care reform in Russia in the context of the country’s new family policies.

Can States Improve Children’s Health by Preventing Abuse and Neglect?
Ron Haskins, Janet Currie, and Lawrence M. Berger - The Future of Children Policy Brief Spring 2015,

This brief from the Future of Children Journal, a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, outlines the current state of the Child Welfare System in the United States, particularly federal funding to individual states’ child welfare systems.