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News - How do we maintain and promote responsive relationships during the coronavirus pandemic? While stay-at-home measures during the pandemic are helping to slow the spread of the virus, protect our health, and protect our hospitals, it's important to connect…
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News - Community Care reports on the practice of shifting child protection conferences to virtual meetings because of Covid-19 and the miscellaneous observations by both professionals and parents. 492 professionals (17% of them are social workers) and 24 parents took part in a…
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News - On Friday, 11 December 2020,  NGO Center for Children's Rights of Montenegro organized a panel discussion on the topic of the impact of a crisis caused by the COVID19 on children and socially vulnerable families. The panel discussion was organized within the project…
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News - In a report, inspectors have declared their praise for the joint working between social care, education, health and emergency services to improve support for young people dealing with mental health issues. The co-working of these support services is especially…
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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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News - The National Network for Children Bulgaria (NNC) reported that the government has adopted Regulations for the Implementation of the Social Services Act (SSA). This will regulate the procedure for referral for the use of social services, as well as for the preparation and…
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News - In a small, brightly-coloured backstreet house in Belgrade, Serbia, Roadhouse Svratiste has a nationwide network of social care for daily drop-in canter for street kids centers and institutions for the underprivileged.…
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News - Medway’s children’s services team provides assistance for looked-after teenagers over the age of 16 who are still in need of help. These young people receive support from social workers and leaving-care personal advisers to learn more about themselves and how…
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News - Andrea Csép, an UDMR politician said, that the currently adopted law in Romania has simplified the process of adoption. The compulsory course can be taken in Hungarian too, and the diploma will be valid for five years, instead of two. The provision that a family member…
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Online library - Many children and families across the globe have been affected by COVID-19. Currently, there is no exact information on the long-term effects of this illness, but this review tries to report and investigate the available evidence to…
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News - Discussing her employment as a child protection social worker, Jennifer speaks about her experience. She represents one of 30,700 children's social specialists in the UK. She, is recently qualified and right, now works for…
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News - Children in mental health wards are suffering from the consequences of Covid-19. Kamena Dorling, head of policy and advocacy at children’s rights charity Article 39, said “Every child detained in hospital has a right to an advocate", but a report shows that visits from…
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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 - The organisation TASZ was faced on several occasions with the fact that parents are informed in the guardianship office, that if they stand up for their rights, they will not get their children back. Until now, cases, when the child welfare office discouraged the parents…
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News - Prompted by the completion of the second year of the "My Body, My Rights" project of the Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA), two round-table conferences were held in Yambol ( 24 September 2020) and Montana (28 September 2020).…
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Online library - The data of Children's Services departments in combination with advances in computer power and algorithms can provide the possibility of using machine learning to identify children at risk. Objectives of the project are this would…
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Multimedia - In June, we informed you about the online seminar "Supervision in the social sphere based on the counseling approach". The seminar was the second in a series dedicated to supervision and was presented by graduates of the Master's program Psycho-Social…
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News - 3 years ago, according to statistics from the SACP and the State Agency for Refugees at the Council of Ministers, Bulgaria reported: 22 Homes for children deprived of parental care, where 603 children between the ages of 7 and 18 grow up; 17 Transit housing, where 146…
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Online library - Regional social policy experts of the Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans network, prof Gordana Matkovic, PhD and Paul Stubbs, PhD prepared this study, with the support of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the countries included are Albania, Bosnia…
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News - Hope and Homes for Children - Bulgaria shared a touching story about the reunion of a mother (Asya) with her children again, after they were forcibly taken to an institution. The mother's story also includes growing up in an institution after she was left by her mother to be…
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News - Based on the views of 82 people in 11 focus groups, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found that racism and stereotypes among social workers and other professionals create disadvantages and disclosures for people from…
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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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Online library - Children and families seeking support face many challenges in a complex system, they may knock on the wrong door, wait in the wrong queue or search for non-existing services. Social services should be built around families and should be available as early as…
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Multimedia - PhD researchers and joint directors of Listen Up Reseach have contributed to an understanding of intersectionality within social work with young people. Their guide, 'Initial meetings with young people: an intersectional and systemic approach', released…
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News - On 22 May, in Bristol, a remote family court hearing was conducted via Zoom. The hearing  concerned a couple 'whose children had received severe, unexplained injuries'. Potentially, the couple could be separated from their children, the youngest …
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News - The Know-How Centre for the Alternative Care for Children, NBU, shared an announcement for the start of the admission process for the Master's programme Psycho-Social Interventions for Children and Families. Social services and support for children at risk and with multiple…
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News - 'I’ll adopt a kindergarten' is an initiative in which supporters can adopt disadvantaged kindergartens, children’s workshops, study halls, and children’s homes to  help children in need. One of the institutions participating in the program is the Tiszavasvár…
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News - UNICEF Hungary continues to maintain the supervision provided by the organisation, but now professionals working in basic child welfare services can also benefit from it. The free supervision services provided by UNICEF Hungary are also available for those working in…
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News - We as human beings have a common need: connecting with people we care about. The Coronavirus and the restrictions created in this situation, including the limitation of face-to-face communication, can have a negative impact on vulnerable children…
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Online library - The Coalition of NGOs for the Protection of Children in Kosovo - KOMF has published the Monitoring Report "My Municipality, My Social Right" on the process of decentralization of social services in Kosovo. This report elaborates on the factors that have hindered…