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Around the world, more than eight million girls and boys grow up for long periods of their lives not in their own families but in residential institutions. Children are placed in residential institutions because they live in harsh social conditions due to death of one or both parents, parent's illness, adverse economic circumstances, unknown parenthood, cracked family, parent's imprisonment and family inability to provide proper care. Quality of life concerns the satisfaction of individual's needs and demands, which are necessary for his satisfaction with life. Hence, this…
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The current chapter comprises the first-time inclusion of Israel’s child protection system in a comparative survey of such systems worldwide. Following the introduction, the chapter describes the historical development of social services and child protection in Israel, relevant governmental commissions, and the prevention-oriented ‘360 Degrees – Israeli National Program for Children and Youth at Risk’. The child protection legislative framework for child maltreatment, including the ‘Youth (Care and Supervision) Law’, and the ‘Mandatory Reporting Law’ are additional topics…
The aim of this report from SOS Children's Villages is to increase the knowledge and understanding of the needs and rights of young people ageing out of alternative care around the world, in order to inform strategies, policies and services to improve their life chances and outcomes through appropriate preparation for leaving care as well as after-care support. The specific objectives of the research were to highlight facts and figures (or in some cases, lack thereof) on the experiences and challenges of young people leaving care, including through their own voice and the testimony of experts…
Residential child and youth care is examined in places from which practice-based evidence has been rarely shared with the rest of the World. Volume 1 – Global Perspectives used the FIFA Football Confederation Regions to examine residential child and youth care in eighteen countries rarely evidenced in the field, and then twenty-three further contributions in Volume 2 – European Perspectives. Volume 3 – Middle East and Asia Perspectives – offers glimpses of extended family care as well as residential child and youth care in 25 countries never gathered together before in one collection. Nine…
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This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt. While journal readers will be familiar with the issues affecting their own work, they are less likely to know about fostering in other countries. This can be limiting as international comparisons can give practitioners, researchers and educators insights into their own work as well as skills to support children from different cultural backgrounds. The article shows that foster care in Egypt is not a recent development, indeed it dates back to ancient Egypt and the Egyptian kings, but the current legal…
This report aims at describing and analysing existing protection mechanisms available for Palestinian refugee children with a focus on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). It is the result of a Save the Children Sweden research project through the Manara Network: A Civil Society for Child Rights in the MENA region, conducted with Naba’a (for Lebanon), Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine) (for the West Bank, including East Jerusalem) and The Palestinian Centre for Democracy and Conflict Resolution (PCDCR) (for the Gaza Strip) as implementing…