Registration, emergency care and family tracing

This section offers training resources on the prevention of separation, evacuation procedures, tracing, reunification, and monitoring separated children in care arrangements.

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Carol Edwards, Edwina Brockelsby Family Rights Group UK,

A template for assessing the suitability of kinship caregivers in the short term, and for planning the care of a child in kinship care. There are sections that can be given to potential caregivers to help them prepare for caring for a child.

Save the Children Federation,

Guidance on preventing child separation, interviewing separated children, and programming for their care and protection needs. Contains specific information on temporary and longer term care options.

International Committee of the Red Cross,

Core interagency resource on the principles of practice with separated and unaccompanied children. Includes prevention of separation, evacuation procedures, and tracing, reunification, and care arrangements.

Norwegian Refugee Council/ The Camp Management Project ,

A guide for camp management agencies that provides instruction on the care and protection of all children (under 18), as well as those with specific needs, such as unaccompanied and separated children, child heads of households, children formerly associated with armed forces, and out-of-school and unemployed adolescents and youth.

Brigette De Lay, IRC,

Detailed guidance on using drawing with children to facilitate documentation and tracing efforts, as well as a tool for reintegrating separated children into families.

Directorate of Immigration Finland ,

Comprehensive guidance on interviewing children as part of an asylum interview. Contains theory and practice guidance on how to set up an interview and ask questions in a child-friendly manner. Explains how to enable children to recall memories and how to interview children in distress.

Save the Children Alliance, UNHCR, UNICEF and OHCHR,

A training resource pack on preventing the separation of children from their caregivers, assessing and locating separated children, care arrangements, family tracing and reunification, and monitoring and supporting separated children.

Save the Children,

Comprehensive guide to programming for separated children. Includes chapters on agency co-ordination, prevention, documentation, tracing, reunification and emergency and interim care placements.