Course: Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children

In previous course steps we have thought about the move from care into semi-independent and independent living. We also considered some of the issues that are important to care leavers …

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the making of this course: Members of the Caring for Children Moving Alone MOOC Taskforce A special thank you to the international agencies …

Video Content Producers for Freakworks Sinead Kirwan Chris Marks Director of Photography Tomas Sheridan Editors – Freakworks Lindsay Watson Grant Jamieson Post Production Team at Freakworks Adam Borys Grant Jamieson …

In this video Chrissie Gale shares with you her concluding thoughts and summarises some of the main themes we have covered over the six weeks of the course. Chrissie made …

We have reached the last episode of Aden’s Journey. We have followed Aden through his difficult journey and met the people who have either hindered or helped him along his …

In this video we hear from Giovanni, a refugee who arrived in Mexico when he was a child accompanied only by a sibling. Giovanni has moved into a semi-independent living …

Earlier this week we noted that ‘ageing out’ of care is the time when a child reaches the legal age at which they must leave their alternative care setting in …

In this video you will see a meeting being held by volunteers from the Italian Red Cross on the Italian island of Sicily. The meeting is led by Santa Sicali …

In this video you will hear about family reunification in Hitsats refugee camp in the district of Shire, in Northern Ethiopia. You will learn how unaccompanied and separated children are …

As we noted in the previous course steps, children and young people leave alternative care for different reasons. One reason is family reunification – whether back in a child’s own …

SOS Children’s Villages Norway has produced a video called ‘Barnas vei’ (Children’s Way) in which we see the anxiety experienced by a young person who arrived unaccompanied and is waiting …

How we support unaccompanied and separated children who are leaving care may depend, on their care setting, on the reasons they are leaving, on the situation they may be moving …