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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Teresa Moreno and Jan van Dongen (eds.),

Collection of articles highlighting suggestions on how to improve existing mechanisms for providing adequate care. Major article on the current state of international thinking on children without parental care.

Neil McMillan and Diane Swales - Save the Children UK,

A guideline to establish and promote good practice in a variety of childcare settings through the application of quality indicators. The indicators address professional practice, quality of care, caregivers, resources and administration.

Scottish Executive,

A set of standards guiding services for children who have been adopted, birth families, and adoptive parents.

Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies,

Lists ethical “do’s and dont's” specific to Consultants/Advisors, Managers/Supervisors, and Field-Level Workers arranging and conducting Needs Assessments in disaster situations.

Scottish Executive,

Serves as an example of fostering service standards from the perspective of children, birth families, and foster caregivers

Romania National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption,

Outlines minimum standards for the operation of a day care center for children with disabilities in Romania.

Rebecca T. Davis,

Provides a framework for analysis of community-based social welfare services and linkages with government structures. Includes analysis of alternative care provision, de-institutionalization, programming for children with disabilities, standards of care, and overall social welfare sector reform.

Scottish Executive,

A set of standards for residential settings, including the young person’s welcome into care, the quality of care they should receive, contact arrangements, and listening and responding to the views of young people.

Romania National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption,

Minimum standards for day care centers in Romania.

Save the Children Fund,

A set of standards and indicators to guide staff and agencies in the provision of a minimum standard of care for children. The standards apply across a range of care settings and cover the delivery and administration of child care services, staff and caregiver competence, and the quality of care children should expect to receive.