Course: Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this video, 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 a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …