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Webinar: Learning Session on Alternative Care in the COVID 19 Pandemic (for the Indian Context)
… prioritising family-based care in emergency settings that could be helpful for practitioners in India as they plan a … prioritising family-based care in emergency settings that could be helpful for practitioners in India as they plan a …
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The Charm Toolkit Piloted Findings from Monitoring Visits: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary and United Kingdom
Dr Sarah Woodin - Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, Ann Craft Trust, Global Initiative on Psychiatry, The League of Human Rights , 01 May 2017
… In the scope of the project, the institutions visited could not be a representative sample of all places where … but had to share a pool of clothes and grab what we could get. We were even colour-coded in groups and had stars … not to trust people and to just try and survive as best I could. I became defensive and on guard all the time just to …
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The Impact of the European Union in the Transformation of Child Protection Policies: A Study of Bulgarian Deinstitutionalization Reform (1989-2015)
Vera Radeva - Institut d'études politiques de Paris, 07 Dec 2018
… As a psychologist working in the sphere of the handicap, I could not neglect the future of thousands of children whose … in 2007, the same year as the projection of the movie) we could not but link the transformation of child protection … and common model of child protection, and how this model could intervene with state welfare, national, and historical …
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Ending Institutionalisation: An analysis of the financing of the deinstitutionalisation process in Bulgaria 
Georgette Mulheir - Lumos, 2015
…  Why is the rate of deaths in baby institutions rising?  Could many of the 5,556 children in care of different kinds … live with families in the community, with some support?  Could some of the children in foster care in fact be … belief that reform was too expensive and that the country could not afford to run a system of community-based services. …
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Deinstitutionalization of Children in Bulgaria: How Far and Whereto?
UNICEF, 01 Jun 2014
… more than two regions where Action Plan implementation could be assessed and the two regions Vratsa and Montana were … formal care, the overall number of children in formal care could be twice as large as shown in figures 4 and 5. The … in adoptions per 100,000 infants aged 0-3 years in 2013 could be linked to more effective prevention in maternity …
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Analysis of the child protection system in Bulgaria: Final Report (English)
UNICEF, 01 Oct 2019
… to provide special protection and care to children could be taken as encompassing this role. The constitution … for Child Protection (article 1.(3)). This stipulation could be attributed to two major factors. First, it was the … 10). According to social report template, these measures could include referral to community-based services, advising …
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A Dead End for Children: Bulgaria’s Group Homes
Eric Rosenthal, Dragana Ciric Milovanovic, Laurie Ahern - Disability Rights International, 19 Nov 2019
… not necessarily be the immediate biological family, but could include extended family, kinship care, foster care, … – the existence of modern, adjustable wheelchairs that could provide a child with needed support. Staff reported … chairs with eyes pointed toward the ceiling so they could not interact with children around them (4). We saw rows …
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Growing up in lockdown: Europe’s children in the age of COVID-19
Eurochild, 17 Nov 2020
… in alternative care had to enter the institution alone and could not be accompanied and helped by their case manager. … On the other hand, children who remained in institutions could not be visited by their parents. In the absence of … example to help with online learning. Their involvement could be made difficult however, for example in Serbia where …
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The Development of Gate-Keeping functions in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS Lessons from Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Ukraine
Andy Bilson , 01 Jun 2010
… to the most conservative estimates. Many of these children could be supported in their own families and communities with … programmes of fostering and adoption for Roma children could be usefully developed. b) Street Children Responses to … engaging them in education whilst still on the streets could be more effective. c) Family type care The programme …
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Ending the Placement of Children Under Three in Institutions: Report from the International Ministerial Conference, Sofia, November 2012
UNICEF , 01 Oct 2013
… and experience of conducting child care reforms, which could guide the interventions planned or in progress across … and in a non-stigmatizing way The majority of abandonments could be prevented – the most important thing is to reach … and experience of conducting child care reforms, which could guide the interventions planned or in progress across …
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