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Learning - Welcome to this short e-learning course on the importance of safeguarding in residential care.  By residential care we mean any institution that children who are not able to live with their family, for whatever reason, normally stay and are cared…
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News - According to a new report by Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) and the South London Refugee Association, at least one in every ten children in British care has an unresolved immigration or nationality issue.  Local authorities’ corporate parenting duties include…
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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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Webinar - About the webinar: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ABANDONED CHILDREN BECOME ADULTS? When they become 18 (or when they graduate from secondary school), young people raised in alternative care have to take their lives in their own hands. The state has…
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News - Due to the pandemic, social workers have been forced to carry out their regular duties without meeting their wards in person. This has effectively eliminated the social aspect of their work. Furthermore,  it is difficult to assess…
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News - Paris is about to make the city greener and more people and child-friendly with removing half of its 140,000 on-street car parking spaces. According to the city’s deputy Major, the city needs to adapt to the climate change. The aim is to make the air more…
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News - Every year, about 200 young people leave family-type accommodation centers and specialized institutions where most have spent their entire childhood. Unfortunately, they are usually unprepared for life beyond alternative care. After leaving the centers, young…
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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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News - New figure from the children's commissioner reported that one in eight chidlren in care spent time in unregulated accomodations such as hostels, caravans and tents.  These kids are mostly at the age of 16 or 17, but in 2018/9 more than…
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News - Two former residents of the Kalocsa children’s home decided to report their stories of torture and abuse suffered while they lived there. Two supervisors of the home also commented anonymously on the atrocities taking place within the walls of the institution. Both former…
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News - Whilst governments have focused on addressing the health and economic aspects of the crisis, the social care sector is being left behind, with drastic consequences on service availability. Support services are adapting to respond to new needs; however the lack of…
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Multimedia - The risk of Covid-19 infection is much higher for care home residents who live in environments where physical proximity and everyday contact with their peers and service personnel is a given. Oliver Lewis reminds us that Michelle Bachelet has called for …
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Multimedia - Future in the Future Tense is a short film made within the "FID: To fulfil the (im)possible dreams" project, with the financial support of the European Union's Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020). Partners in the project are the Know-How Center for…
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News - The very first measurement have done by the governments during COVID-19 outbreak is to shift from on-site education to online and sending the pupils home as soon as possible, however not every education sector can shift to it that easily. Following…
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News - In Hungary, five thousand children are placed in state care every year. In the SOS Children’s Villages campaign, young adults who have grown up in the system are sending messages to children living in children’s homes. These video messages contain advice for children to…
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Multimedia - A movie about young people who came out, or, are in the process of preparing to leave the residential care.
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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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News - 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…
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News - The Know-How Centre for the Alternative Care for Children, New Bulgarian University, shared a webinar organized under the 'Fulfilling (Im)Possible Dreams' project and the Child Protection Network, which was held in November, 2019. The webinar presented the experience of…
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News - 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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Multimedia - We are sharing this interview in Bulgarian with Georgi Dimitrov, author of "Да докоснеш мечтата" (Touching the Dream) and founder of the dance group "Петлите" (The Roosters), which discusses the effect of institutionalization on children in residential homes. Georgi…
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News - Anyone can see the exhibition of the 12 – 21 years old young people’s artwork, who are living in a residential home, in the Government Office of Csongrád County. They made their works with the help of educators, psychologists and child protection professionals. The main…
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News - Bulgarian government accepted amendments to the Foreigners Act and the Child Protection Act to ease the application for residence for people from non-EU countries with Bulgarian origin. It includes the rules of procedure for family…
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News - A declaration on ‘Protecting children in out-of-home care from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse’ has been adopted in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 18 October by the Lanzarote Committee. The declaration’s main concepts include: ‘Out-of-home care’ represents all…
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Event - The Know-How Center for Alternative Care for Children, NBU, together with MLSP of the Republic of Bulgaria, Cedar Foundation, UNICEF, SOS Children's Villages, Eurochild, Hope and Homes for Children and the Lumos Foundation, kindly invite you to participate in the …
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Multimedia - Nova Television (Bulgaria) told the story of Vesko, who spent four years in a special-needs school without any mental disabilitiy and yet has escaped the trap of marginalization. You can see Vesko's full story in the shared video clip in Bulgarian. Vesko was left by…
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News - Milan Šveřepa, the co-chair of the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care, wrote an interesting blog on the deinstitutionalisation process and people with intellectual disabilities. These issues were discussed in a seminar…
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Event - Mental Disability Rights Initiative of Serbia and the Citizens' Association FemPlatz are inviting you to a two-day training on preventing violence against women with disabilities in residential institutions, which will be implemented on
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Event - Each year CCF / HHC Moldova together with the owner, Valentina Nafornita (Patron CCF/HHC Moldova), celebrates human generosity and togetherness through a social event called the Generosity Gala. Generosity Gala is a social event and advocacy, which gathers well-…
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Multimedia - Cold temperatures that are reigning in the country are threatening the lives of people living in poor social conditions in the capital. Competition to benefit from social housing is still in the evaluation process therefore families in need during this winter can not…