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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …