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Adopting better care: Improving adoption services around the world
Adopting better care promotes positive care choices for children living without parental care. It examines domestic and inter-country adoption and aims to explore why adoption is so rarely used globally. The paper also explores whether or not an expansion
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Enabling Reform: Why supporting children with disabilities must be at the heart of successful child care reform
The Better Care Network and EveryChild present the latest paper in the Better Care Network working paper series. This paper focuses on children with disabilities and urges reform efforts and implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Chi
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Family first: Prioritising support to kinship carers, especially older carers
'Family first: prioritising support to kinship carers, especially older carers' is the fourth in EveryChild’s series of papers promoting positive care choices for children living without parental care. It is produced jointly with HelpAge International. Th
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EveryChild Moldova’s Programme Experience: Improving Children’s Lives Through Deinstitutionalisation
This Programme Review documents the evolution of the EveryChild (EvC) Programme since 1994, presenting the development of interventions to improve the lives of children through deinstitutionalisation and identifying the best practices and lessons that may
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Scaling down. Reducing, reshaping and improving residential care around the world. Positive care choices:Working paper No. 1
This working paper summarizes the evidence base on residential care to promote better decision making among policy makers and child welfare practitioners, with priority given to ending residential care for children under three, and care in large scale fac
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A safe family for every child: An agenda for action
Every Child's Agenda for Action calls for decision makers around the world to step up efforts to ensure that all children grow up safe and protected in families. It identifies three key areas of action that are of particular importance to ensuring childre
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Making social work work. Improving social work for vulnerable families and children without parental care around the world
This literary review calls for families and children in developing countries to be supported in ways that are appropriate to the conditions, culture and resources available rather than through approaches to social work that are common in the west. Childre
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Protect for the future- Placing children's protection and care at the heart of achieving the MDGs
In a new report, ‘Protect for the Future’, the charities – led by EveryChild and including ChildHope, Consortium for Street Children, The International Children’s Trust, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Railway Children, Retrak, Save the Children and War
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Every child deserves a family: for children and young people
This report is aimed at children aged 11 and over. It was produced to provide feedback to the over 400 children who took part in the consultations for developing EveryChild's conceptual framework 'Every child deserves a family' (2006). The report concerns
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Fostering better care. Improving foster care provision around the world
The paper suggests that further efforts are needed to ensure that foster care is an option open to a wider range of children. Foster care leads to better outcomes for children than harmful forms of residential care, and may be a more suitable choice than
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Missing: Children without parental care in international development policy
Twenty years on from the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), evidence suggests an alarming lack of progress in achieving children’s fundamental rights to grow up in a loving family environment. Research, particularly from les
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Every Child Deserves a Family. EveryChild's approach to children without parental care
This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care. It defines key concepts, analyses the nature and extent of the problem, explores factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and exami