Kenya Marks a Major Milestone in Care Reform with High-Level Government Support

Lumos

This article describes a milestone in Kenya’s child care reform, marked by high‐level government engagement and a shift toward transforming child protection systems. On October 2, 2025, Kenya’s government, civil society organizations, and child protection practitioners met with Lumos Kenya to launch “costed, holistic and systematic care reform roadmaps” and case management process plans to transition children from institutional care into family‐ and community‐based care. Key features include development and use of tools to compute the real cost of transition, policies aimed at reintegration and after‐care, training of social workers and caregivers, scaling up parenting and family support programs, and a seed allocation of roughly KES 2 billion to a Child Welfare Fund to benefit over 500,000 children.