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The purpose of this research was to capture more accurate and detailed information regarding children in various forms of alternative care in Thailand, as well as the legal, policy, management and oversight environment surrounding them in order to plan and programme more strategically in the area of alternative care, and simultaneously contribute to the global evidence base for international findings and recommendations on alternative care.
The review covered the following types of registered alternative care for children: Residential Care, Foster Care, and Kinship Care.
While the scope…
This brief from UNICEF Cambodia describes UNICEF's plans and programs regarding child protection. It highlights key child protection needs and issues including: (1) keeping children in families, (2) protecting children from violence, (3) strengthening child protection and broader social services, (4) empowering communities to protect children, and (5) actions for adolescents. For each of these areas, the document briefly outlines what UNICEF is doing to address these needs.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Myanmar, with the support of UNICEF, launched a set of guidelines and minimum standards, alongside monitoring and oversight plans, aimed at bettering the lives of children in residential care. In addition to detailing the steps that residential facilities will need to take to register and be eligible for Government support, the guidelines establish the services that these institutions will have to provide to children such as accommodation, health care, hygiene, nutrition and education, including vocational training. Minimum…
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Myanmar, with the support of UNICEF, launched a set of guidelines and minimum standards, alongside monitoring and oversight plans, aimed at bettering the lives of children in residential care. In addition to detailing the steps that residential facilities will need to take to register and be eligible for Government support, the guidelines establish the services that these institutions will have to provide to children such as accommodation, health care, hygiene, nutrition and education, including vocational training. Minimum…
This chapter appears in Child Maltreatment in Residential Care: History, Research, and Current Practice, a volume of research examining the institutionalization of children, child abuse and neglect in residential care, and interventions preventing and responding to violence against children living in out-of-home care settings around the world.
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This report examines current policy framework and practices in five countries, namely Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the Republic of Nauru. The research is the result of extensive desk-based research, stakeholder consultations in South East Asia and interviews with child asylum seekers and refugees. The research documents current practices in detention of child asylum seekers and refugees, the conditions of detention and the impact of detention on children. It also explores available alternatives to detention in these countries and emerging…
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This study employed a correlational design and examined the extent to which four components of quality of care (including food security, quality of shelter, quality of caregiving, and access to health care services) predicted psychosocial well-being of orphaned and separated children (OSC), as well as the extent to which these components of quality of care and key demographic factors, such as age, gender, and orphan status moderated the associations between care settings and psychosocial well-being of OSC. This study was an extension of Whetten et al.’s 2009 study that found…
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In 2013, UNICEF underwent a significant reorientation of its Child Protection Programme in response to an extensive mid-term review (MTR) and changes in the political and social context of Myanmar. The opening of the country in 2012 and the significant push for reform by the Government created the space for UNICEF to shift the focus of its Child Protection Programme to target a systems building strategy and approach, to best address the multiple challenges hindering the provision of protection for children.
With this backdrop, in August 2013, UNICEF…
The report ‘Mapping of residential care facilities in the capital and 24 provinces of the kingdom of Cambodia’ was released by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation in April 2017. UNICEF provided technical support and USAID provided financial support to the Ministry to conduct the study. The mapping significantly advances the current knowledge of the state of institutionalization of Cambodian children. For the first time, evidence- based data is providing MoSVY with practical information that details where the facilities are and how many children live in them,…
This study aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors of depression, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem among institutional Malaysian adolescents. This cross-sectional descriptive study included 287 adolescents aged 12–18 years living in six selected orphan homes. Study’s instruments included Socio-demographic questionnaire, validated Malay version of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
The findings revealed that 85.2, 80.1 and 84.7% of participants had depression, anxiety and stress respectively. Females were more likely to be depressed. Furthermore,…