On February 23, from 10-11.30am CET, Eurochild and UNICEF ECARO are hosting an expert online roundtable on the subject Measuring progress in deinstitutionalisation and improving data availability, quality and comparability on children in alternative care.
The objective of this online roundtable discussion, is to showcase good practices across the EU in integrating children in alternative care into national monitoring indicator frameworks and data improvement action plans and to identify key drivers that can facilitate the necessary data reforms and result in stronger data systems and increased data use in the policy cycle. This webinar is closely linked to ongoing work at EU and national level on the issue of deinstitutionalisation as part of the European Child Guarantee.
Eurochild and UNICEF’s joint DataCare initiative and the results of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) survey informing the Guidance on statistics on children developed by an expert task force under the Conference of European Statisticians found that most of the participating countries collected some data on children in alternative care, including EU Member States. However, not all countries have national monitoring frameworks including indicators on children in alternative care or use the data they collect to produce and publish official statistics on this population group and monitor progress made in implementing their child protection system reforms.
Eurochild and UNICEF consider this an opportune moment to convene and discuss on good national practices as EU Member States are developing national action plans for the European Child Guarantee accompanied by national monitoring frameworks to capture data on some of the most vulnerable groups of the child population including children in alternative care.
The audience of this roundtable will be composed of invited EU and national policymakers involved in the European Child Guarantee initiative, national statistical offices, national ministries with responsibility for children in alternative care, UNICEF country offices and civil society organisations as part of the Eurochild network of children’s rights organisations.
If you have any questions about participation in this event, please do not hesitate to contact Ciaran from Eurochild at ciaran.odonnell@eurochild.org.
