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News - Nexial and the Know-how Centre for Alternative Care for Children in Bulgaria are offering a free training for those child protection specialists who are interested in redesigning the system of child protection and care in Bulgaria. The System Change Training programme will…
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Online library - Since 2000, there has been a firm commitment by the European Union and its Member States to the deinstitutionalisation of children in institutional care and support for their transition to care that is family- and community-based. The European Child Guarantee…
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Online library - National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) launched “My Things Matter” - a national campaign across England and Wales - that aims at improving the experience of children and young people when moving from one home to another during their time in care. The campaign wants…
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Online library - UK: According to the latest report by The Fostering Network, the UK’s fostering system is at risk to fail children and young people
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Foster carers provide care for nearly 70,000 children
Children and carers are faced with “a crumbling and failing system…
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Online library - Barnardo’s developed recommendations to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care announced in 2021 January in a report, where young people shared their stories and experiences about the care system. According to the publisher, those who have direct…
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News - A law has been introduced in the United Kingdom that bans unregulated support accommodation for children under the age of 16, which means it is still legal to settle children above the age of 16 in a non-care setting.
In 2018/19, more than 600 children under the age of 16…
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News - The Guardian reported that many children each year are left motherless by femicide. Generally, families and friends struggle to take on the role of carers, hit by sudden loss and unexpected added responsibility.
There are numerous activists and associations who are trying…
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News - Eurochild reports about its support for FICE Croatia alongside Martin James Foundation with a goal to accelerate deinstitutionalisation reforms in Croatia.
With their support, FICE Croatia has:
Carried out a needs assessment and delivered training on…
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News - According to the Adoption Leadership Board, there were 2,030 children still waiting for adoption in the UK in the second part of 2020/2021, 44% of whom were siblings.
Adoption charity Parents And Children Together (PACT) stated…
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News - The CMA (Competitions and Markets Authority) is conducting research on children's care in the UK.
The aim of the study is to find out why is there a lack of availability and increase of costs in children's care institutions, which results in children's needs not being met…
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News - Report recommends halting adoptions from abroad because of abuses: AD
A report about adoption in the Netherlands is asking to stop adoption from abroad. After civil worker, Tjubbe Joustra has noticed through studying cases for 30 years the abuse has done to the parents and…
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Online library - The research report produced by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) offers a comprehensive insight into the issues of overrepresentation of Romani children in state care institutions, widespread discriminatory practices, as well as the lack of…
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News - "Blackpool Council outlines their therapeutic focus on preparing young people with the skills to be able to commit to life within a family unit."
Jack will be spending his next few weeks at a newly launched therapeutic care centre to overcome his…
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News - Children & Young People Now reports that The Fostering Network is urging the UK government to prioritise all foster carers for Pfizer jab amid fears over a shortage of sufficiency of foster carers due to the pandemic.
In phase one of the vaccination programme in the UK,…
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News - Thuy Ly-Chambers is a care-leaver, a person who lived with a foster family for most of her childhood. She acknowledges the support and help from the part of her foster family and the government, which encouraged her to be successful in life. Her foster family was Jamaican…
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Online library - This report sets out the findings from a small research project that explored what contributes to good matching decisions for children in foster care. The research activity took place in the summer of 2019.
The executive summary gives …
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News - Tina Amongi, a Story of Care Ambassador on Coram's Voices Through Time, project and Paul Adams, fostering development consultant at CoramBAAF, emphasized the importance of food and heritage culture in meeting the cultural identity needs of children in care.…
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News - The Covid-19 situation has made finding and maintaining stable homes for more than 400,000 foster children in the United States very difficult. The mechanism of foster care varies by state and country, but they share the same threats…
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News - Campaigners have called for a “significant cultural change” in recruiting disabled foster carers after research revealed prejudices may prevent them from taking up the role. Fears that foster children could end up caring for their disabled foster parent…
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Multimedia - The questions about the contact are vital for children who were adopted or are in care, as it is the period of great changes in the life of a child or maybe the first time they are separated from their birth families. Therefore, it is crucial to make decisions…
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News - COVID-19 has provided the pretext for pushing through changes that is deeply problematic and very contested. Professor Brid Featherstone and Professor Anna Gupta highlighted the key areas of concern with the extensive changes on The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (…
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Online library - A new research conducted collaboratively by the School for Policy Studies (University of Bristol) and Rees Centre (University of Oxford) highlights factors which explain the 'attainment gap' for English children who have been in need or in care …
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Multimedia - Last month, we shared information regarding the online seminar on April 23, "How do we talk about coronavirus with children living in alternative care and how we help them cope with the effects of isolation?" which was held on 23rd April and was organized by the Know-…
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News - UNICEF Child Rights Officer Viola Szlankó summarized how an epidemiological emergency affects child protection care in a new UNICEF blog post. Most of the children in child protection care have been removed from their families due to abuse, neglect, and violence, and it is…
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On 23–25 January 2020, the 4th edition of the International Congress on Childhood and Adolescence was held in Lisbon, Portugal. Eurochild member Sérgio Costa Araújo facilitated a panel at the event on deinstitutionalization, and how Portugal’s new legal framework—…
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News - Children in care and care-leavers need to be explained the reasons why they are in care as it has a direct influence on their wellbeing, according to Bright Spots Research Programme, a partnership between Coram Voice and the University of Oxford.
Surveys showed that almost…
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News - Greece's first integrated online platform for adoption and fostering will be implemented by the end of January. It will help reduce and significantly simplify the adoption process, according to the country's Deputy Minister for Social Solidarity, Domna Michailidou.
'Our…
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News - Fatima is three years old. She was born in Guinea, and arrived in Malaga, Spain on the night of 23 June 2019, after crossing the Mediterranean with a large group of strangers and a woman who claimed to be her aunt. The authorities were unable to confirm the…
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News - Hundreds of people signed an online campaign and letter to highlight the most harmful aspects of today’s public care system in the UK:
Numerous children sent far from their families, friends and schools
More trust in unregulated homes
Many children went to prison after…
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Niels Peter Rygaard, Child Psychologist, who started a foundation to educate care givers shares his reflections on questions of quality and lessons learnt in the below article:
The challenge of implementing the alternative care guidelines
As a Eurochild member…
