A child-headed household is one where there are no adult carers available and children live on their own. Typically an older child will care for siblings, cousins, nephews or nieces... More >>
Kenya Careleavers Conference Report: “How I Left Care”
Kenya Society of Careleavers and Koinonia Old Beneficiaries Welfare Association
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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.
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Better Care Network Strategic Plan 2014 – 2017
Better Care Network
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28 February 2014
In 2013, Better Care Network (BCN) initiated an important process of developing a new Strategic Plan identifying the main strategic focus for its work over the next four years (2014-2017). The plan is based on an analysis of BCN’s achievements to date, the strategic areas in which BCN can have most impact in the future by working with key actors to strengthen the response to children without adequate family care.
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United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on Children's Rights 2013
United Nations
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18 December 2013
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted without a vote four resolutions on children’s rights on the 18th December 2013, focused on the Rights of the Child, the Girl Child, Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Strengthening Collaboration on Child Protection within the United Nations system.
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Foster Family: A Study on the Practice of Foster Care for Children In India
Bosco National Research And Documentation Center
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01 December 2013
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This important study on foster care practices in India provides important insight into the history, approaches, challenges and opportunities facing the development of foster care services in the country, presenting a picture of foster care practices across nine Indian states.
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'We are managing our own lives ': Life transitions and care in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda
Ruth Evans, Department of Geography, University of Reading, UK
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01 July 2010
Explores the ways that young people express their agency and negotiate complex lifecourse transitions according to gender, age and inter- and intra-generational norms in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in East Africa.
Charter for Care Leavers
Department for Education
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2012
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This Charter lists the promises that care leavers want the central and local governments to make. The Charter for Care Leavers is designed to raise expectations, aspirations and understanding of what care leavers need and what the government and local authorities should do to be good “Corporate Parents.”
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What Works in Tackling Child Abuse and Neglect? A Manual for Policy Makers, Managers, and Professionals
Tinje Berge-Le Clercg, Mariska de Batt from the Netherlands Youth Institute
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2013
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This manual is the main outcome of the European Commission Daphne III programme, Prevent and Combat Child Abuse: What works? Involving regional exchanges and research from five countries (Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands), this manual brings together knowledge on what works in tackling child abuse. The manual suggests evidence and practice-based prevention and response strategies against child abuse and neglect, including programs and services that have been shown to be successful in strengthening family care.
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Sibling caringscapes: Time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda
Ruth Evans, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading
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20 September 2012
This paper investigates the time–space practices of young people caring for their siblings in youthheaded households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda. Based on qualitative exploratory research with young people heading households, their siblings, NGO workers and community members, the article develops the notion of sibling ‘caringscapes’ to analyse young people’s everyday practices and caring pathways through time and space.
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Resiliency of children in child-headed households in Rwanda: implications for community based psychosocial interventions
Laura May Ward & Carola Eyber
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06 July 2012
Based on participatory research with children living in child headed households in Rwanda, this article focuses on the resilience of children facing extreme hardship and adversity. While the research focuses on child headed households, this study’s findings can be considered more broadly for interventions for other vulnerable children to support their development of innovative coping strategies.
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The Lives of Children Heading Families
Stories as told to Shimelis Tsegaye, ACPF
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2009
Developed while researching child-headed households in five Ethiopian towns and their rural surroundings, this book presents the experiences and stories of individual child household heads.
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