Child Care and Protection System Reforms

Social welfare sector reform is increasingly common, particularly in transitional countries in Central and Eastern Europe.  Increasing attention has been paid to the development of preventive community based child and family welfare programs that would, in coordination with health and education programs and social assistance, provide a range of support for vulnerable families.   

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Más allá del cuidado institucional: Una hoja de ruta para la reforma del sistema de protección y cuidado infantil destinada a los Gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe
Hope and Homes for Children,

Más Allá del Cuidado Institucional proporciona un marco para que los gobiernos desarrollen su propia hoja de ruta para la reforma de sus sistemas de protección y cuidado infantil y la desinstitucionalización. Esperamos que esto inspire el diálogo, guíe las conversaciones entre grupos interministeriales y en la sociedad, oriente a grupos
multidisciplinarios de todos los niveles en la creación de su propia evaluación y ayude en la planificación de su propia hoja de ruta para el cambio.

Care System Assessment Module 3: Implementing the Assessment Framework
Changing the Way We Care,

Key principles, considerations and recommendations in applying the assessment and method details.

Care System Assessment Framework Module 1- Developing a National Care Reform Strategy
Changing the Way We Care,

An overview of key considerations and steps to developing a national strategy for care reform

Ending Corporal Punishment in the Early Years of Childhood: An Essential Right and Need of Every Child
Early Childhood Development Action Network, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children,

This briefing, authored by Jorge Cuartas with End Violence and the Early Childhood Development Action Network examines evidence from research on the impacts of violent punishment on young children, global prevalence and progress towards universal prohibition, and strategies to end corporal punishment. It adds yet more weight to the call that all countries must take steps to prohibit and eliminate violent punishment of all children without delay.

Care Reform in Malawi: A Virtual Study Tour
Emily Delap of Child Frontiers, UNICEF Malawi country office, UNICEF ESARO, Changing the Way We Care, Government of Malawi,

This virtual study tour aims to provide you with an overview of care reform in Malawi from the comfort of your own home. Care reform relates to the care of children. It refers to efforts to improve the legal and policy frameworks, structures, services, supports and resources that determine and deliver alternative care, prevent family separation and support families to care for children well.

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Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform
Changing the Way We Care,

This Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform represents a collection of work developed from the experience of many practitioners and organizations. The aim of this toolkit is to increase the capacity and confidence of those working in children’s care, child protection and family strengthening to mainstream disability through every step, utilizing improvements to systems, practices, skills and attitudes. We envision family care for all children and the use of residential care only as a last resort when absolutely necessary and appropriate. The toolkit reinforces the importance of placing family care for children with disabilities at the top of any care reform agenda.

Care System Assessment Module 4: Assessment Workshop
Changing the Way We Care,

Considerations for facilitating the assessment workshop, group selection, building consensus and drafting priority recommendations during the workshop.

Care System Assessment Training Resources
Changing the Way We Care,
    National Care System Assessments: Guidance to conduct a participatory self-assessment to inform national strategic planning
    Changing the Way We Care,

    This guidance document is intended to support countries to assess nationalcare systems using the Care System Assessment Framework developed and implemented by Changing the Way We CareSM. This document is part of a toolkit that includes the assessment framework and corresponding training materials. Together, this guidance document, the framework and training resources are intended to support stakeholders to plan and conduct an assessment, use
    assessment results to develop a national strategy and, over time, monitor progress in strengthening national care systems.

    Care System Assessment Module 5: Verifying, Analyzing and Using Assessment Findings
    Changing the Way We Care,

    Describes multiple points for verification of results, key considerations for qualitative analysis and considerations to define audiences for using results.