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Introduction to Working Group 2

Judita Reichenberg, Regional Advisor Child Protection, UNICEF CEE/CIS. Family Substitute Services. Introduction to Working Group 2. Key resource persons. Technical Resource: Ms. Vesna Bosnjak, Rapporteur: Ms. Tanja Radocaj. Purpose of the working group.

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Introduction to Working Group 2

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  1. Judita Reichenberg, Regional Advisor Child Protection, UNICEF CEE/CIS Family Substitute Services Introduction to Working Group 2

  2. Key resource persons • Technical Resource: • Ms. Vesna Bosnjak, • Rapporteur: • Ms. Tanja Radocaj Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  3. Purpose of the working group • Examine role of family substitute services within the continuum of services; • Clarify concepts, appropriateness and shortcomings related to each type of family substitute service; • Use lessons learned from promotion/use of substitute-family based options; • Examine links with de-institutionalisation • Agree upon: key lessons, questions for further examination, key conclusions and key recommendations.. Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  4. Family Substitute Services • Target groups • children without parental care; • children separated from parents and living in inadequate or irregular circumstances; • children who temporarily cannot be (re)-integrated in their families. Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  5. Family Substitute Services • Types of arrangements • Kinship care; • Foster care; • Short term protected shelter; • Institutional care; Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  6. Agenda • Topic I: Parentless and other children without parental care • 3 presentations + commentary • discussion • Topic II: Kinship and foster care • 4 presentations + documentary • discussion • Topic III: “Out of home” placements in collective settings • 2 presentations + commentary • Discussion • Summing –up and recommendations Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  7. Expected outcomes • Clarifications on scope characteristics of family substitute services; • Lessons on streamlining assessment and decision making procedures for ‘last resort’-based placement; • Suggestion on improving the links between guardianship authorities and the care system; between formal (and informal) kinship care and the statutory ( and support) services • Suggestion for steps/measures to diversify foster care to serve different groups of children in need of such care Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  8. Expected outcomes • Challenges and ways forward – on differential treatment of sub. family services when needed for • longer period, limited/short period and/or on emergency basis; • a child with a disability or chronic medical condition; • Clarification on role/functions of: temporary shelters, small institutions, institutions in transformation and/or in process of downsizing or closure Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

  9. Expected outcomes • Agree upon: • key lessons, • questions for further examination, • key conclusions • key recommendations Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

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