This policy outlines the issues of voluntourism and orphanages in relation to child protection, and states the criteria by which organisations (private commercial companies, social enterprises and charities) involved in voluntourism activities may apply to join The Code.
The alternative care assessment examines the current social welfare systems and processes rather than on the specific quality of care in the various children’s homes as standards have already been developed.
This paper reports the findings of an Australian study that examined longitudinal data on reasons for entry to care, trajectories in care and patterns of reunification and associated factors.
The research which is the focus of this report involves systematic learning about existing CBCPMs and their linkage with formal, government led aspects of the wider child protection system.
This study examined the extent to which children and adolescents participated in decisions that affected them at the points of removal and reunification in the child protection process in Spain.
This document includes the appendices for the Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care study, which privides a complete picture of the study's research methods and quantitative data collected.
The aim of this study was to explore how young people who have been in care, and their carers, conceptualise permanence and stability.
The purpose of this review document is to inform the development of an African Partnership for quality in the care of orphans and vulnerable children. By reviewing experiences to date in similar efforts, this review identifies best practices and challenges that may inform the development of a regional partnership focusing on quality.
This document contains the Procedures and Practice Guidelines for Foster Care and Adoption in Lesotho.
A document containing the policy for foster care and adoption in Lesotho.
The objectives of this study, which was conducted from January-April 2011 in Sierra Leone, were: to learn about local beliefs and values concerning children, childhood and harms to children; to explore the actions that communities take and the mechanisms that they use for children’s protection; and to understand if and how these actions and mechanisms are linked to the government-led child protection system.
This Declaration on Child Rights and Wellbeing was adopted by the Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) in Bujumbura on 3rd September 2012 during the First EAC Child Rights Conference under the theme, “Addressing the issues that negatively impact on the realisation of child rights in the EAC.”
This mapping process was commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in order to facilitate the transitioning of Uganda’s approach to child protection from a disjointed, issue-based and project-oriented approach to a more system-oriented approach in order to respond effectively to the multi-dimensional and complex child protection needs of all children in the country.
The purpose of this research is to learn about community-based child protection processes and mechanisms in two refugee camps in Rwanda – Gihembe and Kiziba.
This article is based on interviews with 19 child care policy experts including policy advocates, researchers, and funders.
Analyzing rich data from in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, Next Generation researchers documented the challenges that low-income families face as they patch together a variety of arrangements to meet their child care needs.
The paper explores how the UNCRC reporting process, and guidelines from the Committee outlining how States should promote the rights of young people making the transition from care to adulthood, can be used as an instrument to track global patterns of change in policy and practice.
This paper draws on the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) microdata to paint a portrait of child poverty across a diverse group of countries, as of 2004–2006.
This paper attempts to look at the responsiveness of global social policy to addressing multidimensional child poverty, through the experience of UNICEF's Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities.
This paper presents the historical background for the development of child care in the Nordic countries, it presents some basic figures on child care take and take up of leave schemes as well as figures on child poverty in the Nordic countries.
This paper uses comparisons of child benefit packages in the European Union and Central and Eastern European and Confederation of Independent States (CEE/CIS) countries derived using model family methods.
This paper looks at how social protection is evolving in developing countries and how it relates to the vulnerabilities of children. It goes on to present the different conceptual models for protection and how they have changed and been influenced by the changing definition of poverty and the growth in transnational knowledge and policymaking.
This paper highlights a number of recurrent issues that help to illuminate and explain the differences that persist between France and Germany in spite of recent reform efforts in child & family policies and evaluates the success of these policies and whether they have achieved their desired effects on mothers' employment patterns, especially those of qualified female workers.
