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This Review, commissioned by UNICEF Bulgaria, is aimed at informing the recommendations for the Bulgarian Government’s Action Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy ‘Vision for Deinstitutionalisation of Children in Bulgaria.’
Many young people rely on their parents when they transition into adulthood. Young people transitioning out of alternative care rarely have that option.
This report by Human Rights Watch examines Japan’s alternative care system for children. It describes its organization and processes, presents current data on the use of different forms of alternative care and highlights the problems found in the institutionalization of most children (including infants), as well as abuses that take place in the system.
This statement of policy of by American Orthopsychiatric Association reviews the evidence on the use of congregate or group care for children and adolescents and concludes that institutional care is nonoptimal for children of all ages, including teenagers, and that even smaller group care settings can be detrimental to the growth and well-being of youth.
This report presents analysis and key findings from a study aimed at fully understanding the situations of children in Indonesia that may lead to family separation.
This document presents the Kingdom of Lesotho's National Multisectoral Child Protection Strategy 2014–2018 and a Costed Plan of Action for 2014-2016. The document is a more detailed operational document, setting out a road map for actions from July 2014 through to March 2017.
This article provides an overview of the current situation in the out-of-home care in Norway and Sweden. Development in later years is described and discussed, including the trends towards privatization of the welfare system in both countries and the role of private, commercial actors within the care sector including out-of-home care for children and young people.
This article explores some of the ways that Buddhism expresses care for its children.
This document sets out the framework and guidance for the inspection of children’s homes in the UK. It should be read alongside the evaluation schedule for the inspection of children’s homes.
This evaluation schedule set out the areas that inspectors will make judgements on when they inspect children’s homes in the UK. It should be read alongside the framework for the inspection of children’s homes.
