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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
University of Strathclyde and CELCIS
This online course explored the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and policy and implementation requirements to apply the principles of “necessity” and “suitability” as depicted through the Guidelines.
6 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Chrissie Gale
International Lead
University of Strathclyde
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Understanding the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and how to apply them
- Understanding the concepts of necessity and suitability as it is applied to alternative care
- Understanding how to apply full and meaningful participation of children and young people in decisions about their care
- Understanding policy requirements for the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
- Understanding good practice in prevention of family separation, provision of suitable alternative care, family reunification and the process of leaving care
- Understanding the aims and practice of Gatekeeping
- Understanding the aims and practice of deinstitutionalisation
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Introduction to the Guidelines, the Principles, and Gatekeeping
- Week 2 - Upholding the ‘necessity principle’: Supporting and Strengthening Families
- Week 3 - Upholding the ‘necessity principle’: High-Risk Children and Gatekeeping
- Week 4 - Upholding the ‘suitability principle’: Selecting from a Range of Formal Care Settings
- Week 5 - Upholding the ‘suitability principle’: Deinstitutionalisation
- Week 6 - Leaving Care
Issued on 29th July 2020
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