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Multimedia - We are sharing this recording of the meeting that discussed the report "Deinstitutionalization and community life in Bulgaria" with its main author Nadia Deneva. The report focuses on the fact that the Bulgarian model of deinstitutionalization has dashed the hopes of…
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Online library - The report "Deinstitutionalisation and Life in the Community in Bulgaria" focuses on the fact that the Bulgarian model of deinstitutionalization has dashed the hopes of children and adults with disabilities in Bulgaria. The findings of the Validity Foundation show…
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Webinar - About the webinar:
This webinar will explore how some of the Prepare for Leaving Care partner countries have been working towards achieving their sustainability roadmaps since the end of project implementation. Partners will present how they are anchoring…
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News - A union of charities announced the case of closing England’s child prisons due to the ill-treatment of children meanwhile COVID 19 is intensifying that harm.
The announcement originally came out in 2016 but there was nothing done about it. Officials think about turning one…
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Event - The Anna Freud Center, London and the Know-Cow Center for the Alternative Care for Children, New Bulgarian University invite you to participate in the online training AMBIT in the Deinstitutionalization Reform - How to Work With Young People and Children Who Do Not Want Our…
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Event - Eurochild & the CarePath project to convene an online conference on aftercare for care leavers: “Aftercare for Care Leavers: Learning lessons from across Europe”
For children and young people with care experiences, their transition out of public care…
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News - Blagoevgrad Radio (BNR) shared a report, "The Road After Home", concerning deinstitutionalization in Bulgaria and the fate of young people that have reached the age of 18. Nearly 5,000 children in Bulgaria live outside the home of their biological parents. According to…
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Following its flagship campaign to reform child protection and develop family and community based care for children in alternative care under the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign, Eurochild continues to drive reforms with the support of Martin James Foundation.…
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News - The National Network for Children (Bulgaria) shared the opinion of former Constitutional Court Judge Rumen Nenkov (originally published in Defakto.bg) regarding the inadequacy of organized protests against the new Social Services Act (SSA).
Recent protests claim…
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Bulgaria is often held up as a success story of how the EU can support deinstitutionalisation. The recently published Disability Rights International report challenges that claim. But, Bulgaria should receive credit for the progress that has been made.…
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The European Union is seen as a champion in promoting deinstitutionalisation through its introduction of policies and the allocation of substantial funding. Many improvements have been made in reforming child protection systems and encouraging family and community–based…
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Event - The consecutive monthly discussion meeting of the Know-how Center for Alternative Child Care will be held on 13th February 2020 between 16:00 - 18:00 at the Sofia City Library, 4 Slaveikov Square. The topic of the February discussion will be: "The Place of Social Work…
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News - Eurochild reported that over 60 Bulgarian civil society organisations (CSOs) called on six EU Commissioners in a letter to urge the Bulgarian government to effectively act against hate campaigns which question the need for civil society organisations.
A…
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News - On 18th December 2019, the UN General Assembly Third Comittee formally adopted a Resolution on the Rights of the Child, which focuses on the rights of children without parental care. This is a landmark moment in the progress within the field of rights of children…
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Last week, Eurochild was involved in organising two important events on deinstitutionalisation in Brussels. The Opening Doors Pan-European Deinstitutionalisation Campaign came to an end after 7 years (2013–2019) of dedicated and passionate work. A…
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Online library - The transition from institutional to family- and community-based care has received growing support from the European Union and its Member States. On one hand, the EU has been issuing policy guidance and allocating significant amounts of EU funds while, on the other…
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The “Towards Inclusion” conference celebrates 10 years of coordinated EU action on deinstitutionalisation. It aims to take stock of past achievements and set a common vision for the future.
The event is organised jointly by the European Commission and the European…
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There is an unacceptable lack of data on children without or at risk of losing parental care in Europe today. The data that is available is typically not disaggregated, for example by age, gender, or disability. Where data is available, monitoring continues to be haphazard…
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The reform of the child protection system has achieved significant progress in Romania over the past decades. Starting from a child protection system with 100,000 children institutionalised in 600 institutions at the end of 1989, it currently has 181 institutions that…
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Opening Doors brought together five major international organisations: Eurochild, Hope and Homes for Children, the International Foster Care Organisation (IFCO), the European branch of the International Federation of Educative Communities (FICE Europe), and SOS…
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Multimedia - We are sharing this video material with interviews conducted at last month's International Conference Deinstitutionalization of Childcare: Investing in Change. In the video, Professor Nathan Fox, Professor Charles Nelson III and Dr. Charles…
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News - The National Children's Network (NCN) reported that 3 December was International Day of People with Disabilities. The event featured the exhibition ‘We Can Also!’, organized by the Parents in Action civic formation, which emphasizes the right of young people with…
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News - The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP) sent their views on the findings of the Disability Rights International report, which was presented last week, to news website Dnevnik. The Ministry called the findings tendentious, unrepresentative, and aimed at…
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News - There is a research, called Bucharest Early Intervention Project started by Nathan Fox and his team, which compares the outcomes of children who grew up in foster homes with children who lived in orphanages. They started it a couple of years ago with choosing 136 children…
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News - Balkan Insight reported on Disability Rights International's (DRI) critique of the lack of significant change in the ways in which children with disabilities are cared for, despite the recent move towards deinstitutionalisation. According to DRI, the conditions of group…
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Multimedia - The Know-How Centre for Alternative Care for Children shared these 2 videos from the International Conference "Deinstitutionalization of Childcare: Investing in Change" which was held between 5th - 8th November 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In the first video Marie-Anne…
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News - The Bulgarian National Radio shared their interview with Radostina Antonova from the Know-How Center for Alternative Care for Children at NBU, discussing the process of deinstitutionalization in Bulgaria, the foundation of family-type homes for abandoned children,…
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News - More than 250 experts from universities, institutions and non-governmental organizations from Europe, Australia, Central Asia and the US discussed childcare reform at the International Conference on ‘Deinstitutionalization of Childcare: Investing in Change’. The event was…
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News - Bulgaria ON AIR shared a video interview with Evgeniya Toneva from the Center for the Alternative Care for Children at NBU. In the interview, Evgeniya Toneva notes that there are only 21 social care homes in Bulgaria that still need to be deinstitutionalized, while there…
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Within the global context of deinstitutionalisation reform, this event took an EU perspective, focusing on the reform’s specific national characteristics, and on bridging the gap between the accumulated knowledge and decision-making in DI.
The conference was organised by…
