The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children – a pan-European campaign of leading international and national civil society organisations – welcomes the EU’s continued commitment to end the era of institutional care in Europe and calls for an expansion of this commitment to continue progress with national reforms of the child protection systems in all European countries.
As a coalition representing 124 civil society organisations working towards improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children living in institutional care across Europe, we have three key demands to the European Union in their preparation of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), in particular the post-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and the External Action Financing Instruments:
- Strengthen existing ex-ante conditionality on the transition from institutional to community-based care;
- Promote appropriate allocation and spending of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation reforms;
- Improve implementation of the European Code of Conduct on Partnership.
