Moving Forward: Implementing the 'Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children'
Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) | 07 March 2013 | 2.4MB
This new handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ is aimed at legislators, policy-makers and decision-makers, as well as professionals and care providers, to support the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. It explains the key thrusts of the Guidelines, outlines the kind of policy responses required, and describes ‘promising’ examples of efforts already made to apply them in diverse communities, countries, regions and cultures. View document

Child Welfare Policies, Services And Their Aptitude For Care And Protection Of Vulnerable Children And Their Families
Project EDU-CARE | 2014
The Technical Team under the Project “EDU-CARE: Social Operators Active in the Protection of the Children and in the Promotion of the Children’s Rights in Nepal” reports on the child care practices, policies, and programs currently in effect in the country. View document

Kenya Careleavers Conference Report: “How I Left Care”
Kenya Society of Careleavers and Koinonia Old Beneficiaries Welfare Association | 07 December 2013
Koinonia Old Beneficiaries Welfare Association and Kenya Society of Careleavers report on their annual Careleavers Conference that took place on December 7th, 2013 at the Shalom House, Dagoretti Corner. View document

Drumming Together for Change: A Child’s Right to Quality Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, University of Malawi | 2014
This report is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe. View document

General Comment on Article 30 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 08 November 2014
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) held its twenty-second Ordinary Session from 4-8 November 2013 and issued its first General Comment to the African Charter regarding the rights and welfare of children of incarcerated and imprisoned parents and primary caregivers. View document

Country Care Review: Costa Rica
Better Care Network | 11 May 2014
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of the first periodic report of Costa Rica under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the 11th Session, held on 31 March and 1 April 2014. View document

Country Care Review: Azerbaijan
Better Care Network | 11 May 2014
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of the first periodic report of Azerbaijan under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at its 125th and 126th meetings, held on 1 and 2 April 2014, respectively. View document

Country Care Review: Sweden
Better Care Network | 11 May 2014
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of the first periodic report of Sweden under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at its 123rd and 124th meetings, held on 31 March and 1 April 2014. View document

Without Dreams: Children in Alternative Care in Japan
Human Rights Watch | 08 May 2014
This report by Human Rights Watch examines Japan’s alternative care system for children. It describes its organization and processes, presents current data on the use of different forms of alternative care and highlights the problems found in the institutionalization of most children (including infants), as well as abuses that take place in the system. View document

Growth, Nutritional, and Developmental Status of Young Children Living in Orphanages in Kazakhstan
Mary O. Hearst, John H. Himes, The Spoon Foundation, Dana E. Johnson, Maria Kroupina, Aigul Syzdykova, Musa Aidjanov and T. Sharmonov | 12 March 2014
This article provide one of the most comprehensive assessments of physical growth, biological markers of growth and nutrition, and general behavioral development, in this case conducted on 286 children under 3 years of age living in 10 institutions in Kazakhstan that were globally deficient. View document