Thank you
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the making of this course: Lead Educator Dr Chrissie Gale Executive Director for the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures Professor Jennifer Davidson Learning …
Course: Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
Concluding thoughts
In this video, Jennifer Davidson shares with you concluding thoughts and summarises some of the main themes we have covered over the six weeks of the course We have considered …
Hopes and aspirations for children in care
We would like to finish this course with some very positive ideas about the care of children. We interviewed care professionals from different countries of the world who attended a …
Transitioning out of care to independent living
Varying levels of support are being offered to young people transitioning out of care in different countries of the world – sometimes this support may be intensive but for others …
Case Management and alternative care during the COVID-19 pandemic Part 2
When implementing child protection case management that include support for children in need of alternative care during the COVID-19 pandemic, we recommend you look further at the Technical Note on …
Family reintegration (Part 2)
In this video, we hear from Simriti Khadaka who works with an NGO in Nepal. Simriti is Country Director at the non-governmental organisation (NGO), Asha Nepal in Kathmandu. The team …
Reuniting families
This video was kindly provided by Child’s i Foundation in Uganda. Child’s i Foundation was founded in 2009, and works to resettle children living in residential institutions with extended, foster …
How do children transition out of care settings?
The UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children urge that “Removal of a child from the care of the family should be seen as […] temporary and for the …
How should children and families be reintegrated?
What does reintegration of children and families mean? Recently issued ‘Guidelines on Children’s Reintegration’ published by an inter-agency group on children’s reintegration has been widely accepted within the international care …
Why is data important in deinstitutionalisation strategies?
In the video above, we hear from Volodymyr Kuzminskyi. Volodymyr is from Ukraine and is currently a consultant for Oxford Policy Management in the Social Care Services team. He has …
The importance of data and ‘Tracking Progress’
Throughout this course we have been working through the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and, the meaning and implementation of the “necessity” and “suitability” principles. We have …
Strategic planning for deinstitutionalisation (Part 2)
In the previous course step we recognised how the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children urge States to develop alternatives to large residential facilities, identified as ‘institutions’. We …
An example of deinstitutionalisation in Uganda
This video was kindly provided by Child’s i Foundation in Uganda. Child’s i Foundation was founded in 2009, and works to resettle children living in residential institutions with extended, foster …
Why deinstitutionalisation is important
In this video, Ian Milligan speaks to guest speaker, Claudia Cabral. Claudia is the Executive Director of Terra dos Homens in Brazil which she founded in 1996 as an independent …
Strategic planning for deinstitutionalisation (Part 1)
The UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children urge States ‘where large residential care facilities (institutions) remain’ to develop alternatives ‘in the context of an overall deinstitutionalisation strategy, with …
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Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children