Standards of Care

Standards of care are approved criteria for measuring and monitoring the management, provision and quality of child care services and their outcomes. Such standards are required for all child care provision, including day care, kinship, foster and institutional care.

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IREX/ARO,

Update on all recent seminars and activities relevant to child welfare reform and deinstitutionalization in Russia

International Social Service,

International Social Service’s first segment of the series addresses the historical background and the principles and objectives of the Guidelines

Terre des hommes,

A comparative study on the ethical responsibility of receiving countries of intercountry adoption.

SOS Children's Villages - Bolivia,

Provides analysis on the implementation and outcomes of child abandonment prevention and orphan care programming in Bolivia.

Keeping Children Safe Coalition,

The first tool in the Keeping Children Safe Toolkit which explains what the basic standards should be for all organisations across the world working with and for children directly and indirectly

Keeping Children Safe Coalition,

The second tool in the Keeping Children Safe Toolkit which is a resource pack that provides guidance and activities to organisations ing meeting established standards

Kay Johnson,

This document sets forth key standards through which child and youth protection, particularly in regards to foster care, will be approached in Western Australia.

SADC Secretariat,

This study sought to assess, analyse and inform the different forms of vulnerabilities affecting children and youth, and their effects and existing strategies and programmes addressing the challenges and vulnerabilities facing orphans, vulnerable children and youth (OVCY) in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region. The study also sought to propose recommendations for improvement, and development of minimum standards for OVCY and the finalisation of the SADC OVCY Strategic Framework.

Jini L. Roby & Stacey A. Shaw,

Examines the outcomes of family strengthening model in Uganda.

Keeping the Children Safe Coalition,

The third tool in the Keeping the Children Safe Toolkit builds upon the development and implementation of standards portions to address training staff on protocol