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ECCL considers that institutions have no place in modern European societies. They strongly oppose the notion that some children will always need institutional care. While many children with disabilities will need a range of professional support services throughout their lives, ECCL believes there is no justification for providing such services in an isolated or segregated environment, whatever the nature of the child’s disability. All of the services they need can be provided in the family home, foster care or small community homes.
If governments introduce a policy of maintaining…
This report, prepared for the Social Transition Office of the USAID Bureau of Europe and Eurasia, is the result of a desk top study—a secondary analysis of regional and country-specific reports on the evolution of family-focused, community-based social services for vulnerable groups in the region. Paralleling the region’s transition from a command economy to a market oriented society is a shift in the social contract from a state to a shared state-community responsibility for care of vulnerable groups. This study provides a framework for analyzing common elements in the transition of the…
WHAT: A guide to building a child-focused foster system that works with the strengths of children and young people to enhance their resilience and ability to cope with adversity. It outlines practical ways to support caring relationships and create positive educational experiences that bolster self-esteem and self-efficacy. It also identifies ways children and youth can participate in child care decision making and provide program/policy feedback.
WHO: Social and community workers, policy makers, teachers, foster caregivers, and legal…
In the United Kingdom, there has been an explicit move towards greater emphasis on providing family support when there is concern about a child's welfare. Child welfare organisations in Australia have also recognised the need to refocus services to vulnerable children and families. This changed agenda is based on the idea that reduction in the incidence of factors that can lead to child and family dysfunction requires a coherent system that can meet the diverse needs of families (and their children) as early as possible. The overarching framework for such a strategy adopts holistic,…
This video from the BBC exposes some of the mental health struggles that many children in care experience in the UK, sharing the story of one particular young man, Callum, who was placed in care and engaged in self-harming behavior. "England's children's commissioner Anne Longfield has told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that the care system has been too focused on child safeguarding in the past, and not enough on helping children recover from traumatic upbringings," says the video description. "She said there should be 'a presumption' among those working in the sector that all…
Of 648 unpaid carers surveyed in Scotland, 22 percent said they had not taken one day away from caring in five years.
This talk by Lucy Hurst-Brown from BBC Radio 4's, Four Thought series discusses the institutionalization of people with disabilities, including young people, and its effects. In the segment, Hurst-Brown shares personal experiences from her work with people with learning disabilities and the positive changes many experienced as a result of deinstitutionalization and community reintegration efforts.
However, Hurst-Brown also highlights many of the ways in which people with disabilities are still segregated from communities and from society. There are over 3,000 people with…
A man with autism who has spent nearly half his life detained in a mental health hospital has been released after a long campaign by his mother.