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Kind e n Gezin

Discover how Kind en Gezin supports children and families through preventive family services, childcare, and adoption, focusing on diversity and children's rights. Learn about our mission, values, organization, and history.

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Kind e n Gezin

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  1. KindenGezin We care about small children!!

  2. 1. AboutKindenGezin • Mission andValues • Ourassignment • Organisation • History

  3. 1.1Mission andvalues KindenGezin, alongwithits partners, is committedtocreating a maximum of opportunitiesforeverychild, whereverandhoweverit was born andraised.

  4. 1.1Mission andvalues • Attention for: • Diversity • Children’srights • Kinden Gezinstaffare committedtobeing:

  5. 1.2Assignment • Contributingto the well-being of youngchildrenandtheir families in anactive way • Through 3 policy areas: • Preventivefamily support • Childcare • Adoption

  6. 1.2Assignment • Preventivefamily support • Free guidanceforparents (tobe) frompregnancyuntil the child is 3 • Childcare • No organiser but general director of childcare(FlandersandBrussels) • Adoption • Information toandguidance of adoptiveandbirthparents

  7. 1.3Organisation Kind enGezin:Internallyautonomous agencywithlegalresponsibility

  8. 1.3Organisation • Centraldivisions • Coordinating services:management anddevelopment, internal support • Provincialdivisions • Implementation of the services provision

  9. 1.3Organisation Complaints dept Kind enGezincontact centre Internal andexternalcommunication

  10. 1.3Organisation • Coveringthe 3 policy areas • Kinden Gezin–Contact centre • Questionsandcounselling(3 policy areas) • Making/changingappointmentsfor house calls, consultations • Complaintsdepartment • Complaintsabout the Kinden Gezin services provision • Complaintsaboutinstitutions or individualsemployedwithin the KindenGezinsector

  11. 1.3Organisation • Internal andexternalcommunication • External communicationaddressed at parentsand partners • -One-to-oneconsultations • Website(pertheme/stage in infancy) • Newsletters on pregnancy, the evolutionfrom baby totoddler, childcare, adoption and family support (per age/adhoc) • Brochures,leaflets,posters,accounts,annualreports • Video material • Social media • Campaigns • Informationeveningsand fairs(pregnant women), startersmarkets(childcare)

  12. 1.3Organisation • -Training sessionsandrefresher courses (childcare) • -Online learningmodules(professionals) • Externalcommunicationfor doctors • -Extranet

  13. 1.3Organisation • Internalcommunication • -Intranet,news items • DeSchakel(staff magazine) • Website • Onlinelearning modules • Accounts,annualreports,in-depthinformation • Training sessionsandrefresher courses

  14. 1.3Organisation Advisorycommittee Advisorycommittee on adoption

  15. 1.3Organisation • Advisorycommittee • Issues advice(requestby the Administrator General–owninitiative) • Touchstone of policy implementation • Advisorycommitteeto the Flemish Centre for Adoption • Issues advicetothisorganisation

  16. 1.4History • 1904:Startorganisedchild care • First effortsbyvolunteers • 1919: NationalWorkfor Child Welfare (NWK) • Organised at national level • 1984:KindenGezin • Organised at Flemish-Community level • 1987: KindenGezinas a Flemish public institution (VOI) • 2006:KindenGezinas aninternallyautonomous agency withlegalpersonality

  17. 2. Preventive Family support • Assignment • Target group • Prenatalservices provision • Postnatalservices provision • Partners • Innovation:Huizen van hetKind (one-stop shops)

  18. 2.1Assignment • Kinden Gezinguides parents(tobe)frompregnancyuntil the child is 3. • Characteristics of the services • Preventive • On a voluntary basis • Free of charge • Demand-drivencustomised care • Supportive of a positive attitude • Acknowledgingparents’ possibilities • Reaching out tosociallyvulnerablegroups

  19. 2.1Assignment • Keythemes • Healthy food andexercise • Body care andhygiene • Health and full set of vaccinations • Safe living andsleeping environments • Optimaldevelopment • Positiveparenthood

  20. 2.1Assignment • Organised in district teams • District team managers • District nurses • Family support workers • Supportedbyprovincial consultants, lactationspecialistsandprovincial consulting physicians • In infant welfare clinicstoo:physiciansandvolunteers

  21. Districts in Antwerp

  22. Districts in Limburg

  23. Districts in East Flanders

  24. Districts in WestFlanders

  25. Districts in Flemish Brabant and Brussels

  26. 2.2Target group • Parents tobe(prenatalservices provision) • Families withchildrenaged 0-3(postnatalservices provision)

  27. 2.3Prenatalservices provision • Infoeveningsandmaternity fairs in cooperation withmaternityclinics • Information • Pregnancybooklet • Brochures • KindinBeeld: information conveyedthrough pictures andpictographs • Website • KindenGezin–contact centre • Newsletters on pregnancy • Social media

  28. 2.3Prenatalservices provision • Guidance of (socially) vulnerable pregnant women • E.g.teenagepregnancies, addiction, financial problems,individuals without identity papers, disabledindividuals, … • Prenatal support centres in some of the biggertowns • Prenatalconsultationsand house calls • Referralto mainstream services provision • Smaller townsandmunicipalites:house calls by the district nurse

  29. 2.4Postnatalservices provision • Introductoryvisit(in maternityclinic or at home) • House calls • Hearing test • Provision of services on education • (incl. Consultation on Education Support)

  30. 2.4Postnatalservices provision • Consultations at infant welfare clinic • Weighing andmeasuring(volunteers) • Preventivemedical examination by a physician • Vaccinations • Eye test at12and24 months • Discussion of questions

  31. 2.4Postnatalservices provision • Information • Child booklet • Brochures • KindinBeeld: information conveyedthrough pictures andpictographs • Website • KindenGezin–contact centre • Newsletters‘Vanbaby totkleuter’ (from baby totoddler) • Social media

  32. 2.5Partners • Partnersregisteredandsubsidisedby Kind en Gezin • Authoritiesorganising infant welfare clinicsandprenatal support centres • 'Inloopteams‘ (supplyingeducational support todeprived families) • Childcareand family support centres • Education shops • Maternity care expertise centres • Confidential centers on childabuseandneglect

  33. 2.5Partners • ‘EXPOO' (expertise centre on education support) • 'Opvoedingslijn' (contact centreforeductional issues) • Initiativesgeared at enhancingplayandencounter • Local projects • E.g.Domovolunteers(helpingwitheducationthrough support) • E.g.Enhancingschoolingopportunities

  34. 2.5Partners • Other partners • Maternityclinics • Gynaecologists • Self-employedmidwives • Maternityand family care services • PaediatriciansandGPs • Centres for General Welfare • Women’s shelters • Centresfor Overall Family Care

  35. 2.6Innovation:Huizenvan hetKind • Partnership • Kinden Gezin • Local organisationscommittedtoassisting (future) families andyoungpeople

  36. 2.6Innovation:HuizenvanhetKind • Open toallparents (tobe) • One-stop shop foreducationandgrowing-up • Preventivehealth care, education support and promotion of encounterandsocialcohesion as a minimum services offer • Local offer gearedtolocalneedsandharnessinglocalopportunities

  37. 3. Child care • Assignment • Types of child care • Functions of formalchild care • Central andlocal policy • Monitoring andinspection • Subsidiesforchild care • 1 April 2014: new parliament act on child care

  38. 3.1Assignment • Contributing to the well-being of young children and their families in an active way through high-quality childcare • Preparing the Flemish policy on childcare • Implementinglegislation • Supportingparentsandchildcare • InFlandersandBrussels

  39. 3.2Types of childcare • KindenGezinoversees: • Formal childcareforbabiesandtoddlers • Informalchildcare–formalchildcare • Informal:voluntarychildcare taken up bygrandparents, relatives, neighbours,… • Formal:regulated, organisedchildcare • Home-basedchildcare–centre-basedchildcare • Home-basedchildcare:max. 8children • Centre-basedchildcare: startingfrom 9 children

  40. 3.2Types of childcare • Fee:relatedtoincome–ad hoc • Fee relatedtoincome:parentspayaccordingtoincome • Ad hoc:fixed fee, fixedby the childcare provider • After-school childcare • Initiativesforafter-school childcare • Self-employedafter-school childcare

  41. 3.2Types of childcare • Childcareprovisionlikelytobeextended • Inclusivechildcare(forchildrenwithspecific care needs) • Flexiblechildcare(early in the morning, late in the evening, during the week-end,…)

  42. 3.3Functionsof formalchildcare • Economic function • Parents can take a job andearnanincome • Child care = job opportunitiesforlots of people • Socialfunction • As a means of combatting the exclusion of disadvantagedgroups(bothchildrenandparents) • As a means of promoting integration

  43. 3.3Functions of formalchildcare • Pedagogical function • Provides care and security • Enhanceschildren’sphysicalandpsychologicaldevelopment • Is a spaceforinteractionwithotherchildren • Teacheshowtointeractrespectfullywithotherchildren

  44. 3.4Centralandlocalpolicy • Kinden Gezin =Centraldirector • Localauthority(municipalityandOCMW):responsibleforlocalchildcare policy • 3instruments • Local Childcare Policy Plan • Local ChildcareConsultation • Municipalitycanorganiseitsownchildcare • LocalChildcare Desk • Supports parents in their search forchildcare

  45. 3.5Monitoring andinspection • Kind enGezin doesn’t carry out ANY inspections • Inspections are effectedby the Flemish Care Inspectorate, which draws up aninspection report withrecommendations • KindenGezinmakesdecisionsbased on the report andrecommendations of the Flemish Care Inspectorate

  46. 3.6Subsidiesforchildcare Level3 • Vulnerable families • Priority rules Level2 Subsidy ‘plus’ Level1 Subsidy on income-based fee Subsidy on income-based fee • Fee based on income • Priority rules • Use of Dutch • Open 220 days a year Base subsidy Base subsidy Base subsidy Individual special carezorg Individualand/or structural special care

  47. 4. HetVlaamsCentrumvoorAdoptie (Flemish Centre for Adoption) • Assignment • Legislation • Domestic adoption • Intercountry adoption

  48. 4.1Assignment Supervisesalladoptionsof minors, bothdomesticandintercountryadoptions

  49. 4.2Legislation • The Hague Convention(1993)andBelgianlegislation • 2major principles: • Adoptability • (free andfullyinformed consent) • Subsidiarity • (Intercountry adoption as a last resort: after adoption byownrelativesanddomestic adoption)

  50. 4.3Domesticadoption • Child resident in Belgium adoptedbyparents resident in Belgium • Unknownchild(through adoption agency) • Procedure: • Informationsessionandpreparationforparents as required • Socialenquiryintoprospectiveadoptiveparents –guidanceand support forbirthparents – placement of childandafter-care through adoption agency • Adoption verdict pronounced in court

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