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Care leavers are one of the most important stakeholder groups in a care reform process, whose experience, expertise and insights should be at the centre of shaping the reform and advocacy agenda. Whilst the importance of engaging care leavers is recognised within the sector, in practice, methods of engagement vary. In many cases they fail to legitimately empower and enable meaningful engagement or are constrained to inviting care leavers to illuminate existing agendas through the sharing of personal experiences. In situations where care leavers are excluded from the sites of power where…
Strengthening the social service workforce is at the heart of protecting children from violence, abuse, exploitation, and harmful practices and achieve the ambitious SDG targets related to child protection. UNICEF’s Strategic Plan has identified social service workforce strengthening as a priority area of investment in child protection. In 2019, UNICEF issued its first ever global Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Service Workforce for Child Protection. This two-module course is aligned to the Guidelines and aims to equip the learner with key…
In this online event, Family for Every Child members FSCE (Ethiopia), The Mulberry Bush (UK), Praajak (India) and CSID (Bangladesh) discussed children's care in the context of COVID-19. Discussion points included responding to vulnerable groups including children on the move and children with disabilities; domestic violence; kinship care and the digital divide. This webinar also included an overview of what is happening across the membership, and how Family is adapting to support members during this time.
In this webinar, a panel including persons with disabilities and experts in disaster management, human rights and service provision discuss the need for “emergency deinstitutionalisation” of persons with disabilities and how this could be achieved. The term “emergency deinstitutionalisation” refers to protecting disabled peoples’ basic rights to live in the community, getting them the support required to leave the institution in the short term, and subsequently providing any additional support and access to mainstream society, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with…
A well-supported, appropriately equipped, empowered, and protected social service workforce is essential to mitigating the damaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social service workers can build on their existing strong ties to children, families, and communities to rapidly respond in ways that are effective. However, to do so, they must stay safe and healthy.
This webinar focused on the newly released technical note on …
In these unprecedented times, teachers are being asked to think outside of the box in terms of how to continue teaching students outside of the classroom. As instruction is forced online, teachers require strategies to provide differentiated special education to their students. In this webinar, veteran online instructors help identify steps to move online and strategies for adapting the lessons already in motion to this new format. They will share a distilled set of simple, impactful tips as well as resources and tools available to you during the transition.
Strengthening the social service workforce is at the heart of protecting children from violence, abuse, exploitation, and harmful practices and achieve the ambitious SDG targets related to child protection. UNICEF’s Strategic Plan has identified social service workforce strengthening as a priority area of investment in child protection. In 2019, UNICEF issued its first ever global …
The Kenya Society of Care Leavers (KESCA), the Uganda Care Leavers (UCL), The Better Care Network and Changing the Way We Care invited policy makers, practitioners, advocates and careleavers to a unique opportunity to listen and learn from two leaders of careleaver associations.
Special guests Ruth Wacuka of the Kenya Society of Care Leavers and Mai Nambooze of Uganda Care Leavers highlighted two recent documents that illustrate the careleaver experience within and outside of care (…
This training on the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), provided by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action may be useful:
- As a pre-requisite for participants attending Face to Face, on-line, or blended learning opportunities about Child Protection in Emergencies. Completion of the course ensures that participants have a common basic knowledge of the standards, and may involve tailoring this e-course to their context.
- As self-guided learning.
- For anyone currently working with and for…
In this two-part video, you’ll hear from Children in Families ABLE project practitioners, Sorn Sreyny and Lisa Yunker, as they share their experience of making family-based care in Cambodia inclusive for children with disabilities.
In part one, Sreyny and Lisa discuss their key learning with respect to supporting caregivers to care for children, including the importance of managing stress and expectations, developing trusting relationships and taking a whole family approach to support.
In…