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Gatekeeping in Central and Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS)
Dr Chrissie Gale 20th November 2015
- Prevention
- Reintegration
- Alternative family-type Care
- Permanent family
Gatekeeping in Central and Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Gatekeeping in Central and Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Gatekeeping in Central and Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) Dr Chrissie Gale 20th November 2015 Gatekeeping Prevention Reintegration Alternative family-type Care Permanent family A Framework for
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A Framework for Gatekeeping
- Sustained political will
- An appropriate legal and regulatory framework
- Well managed coordination
- Adequate structures and processes for delivery
- f child protection services
- A sufficient and capable work force
- Access to quality alternative family type care
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A Framework for Gatekeeping
- Range of community based family support services –
multi-disciplinary approach
- Support for reunification of children from alternative
care to parents or extended family
- Permanent family
- Data management and accountability mechanisms
- Positive social attitudes and practices.
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A Framework for Gatekeeping
- Important to work within existing national
coordination and networking system
- Important to work with national government systems
- The Ministry of Finance should be our best friend
- We need to encourage donors to support sustained
political will
- Improve national data systems
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Trends: A look at the trends in rates 2000 - 2009
Children without Parental Care 2000 - 2013
Rate of children without parental care during the year (TransMonEE 2015) 2000 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 Armenia 9 48 27 33 24 Azerbaijan 34 33 29 29 33 41 Belarus 221 250 242 221 233 157 Georgia 30 73
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109 52 Kazakhstan
- 233
204 168 163
- Kyrgyzstan
133 148 129 128 138 94 Moldova 128 241 263 400 384 440 Russian Federation 362 462 456 404 311 253 Tajikistan
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174 160 72 65 Turkmenistan 2 4 Uzbekistan 57 70 69 65 70 64 Ukraine 197 242 275 228 194 165
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A Framework for Gatekeeping
- Important to not confuse - i.e. use of different tools
and methodologies
- Child care systems are not providing protection for
children at risk
- Need regional debate on informal care
- Not enough focus on prevention of family separation
- Not sufficiently addressing family reintegration
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Reasons for the institutionalisation of children below 3 years of age in Western Europe countries
parental abuse
- r neglect
- rphans
disability social reasons
Reasons for the institutionalisation of children below 3 years of age in Central and Eastern Europe countries
parental abuse or neglect true orphans disability social reasons
- Source: EU Daphné Programme (2004)
Why are Children Placed in Institutions?
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A Framework for Gatekeeping
- Foster care is becoming ‘paid adoption’ - money
follows the child does not necessarily work and quality of selection, training, support and monitoring is still poor – quota led
- Research shows the benefits of small residential
provision i.e. SGHs for certain children
- Even if the numbers of children in large residential
institutions are decreasing - not necessarily number
- f the children without parental care decreasing
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A Framework for Gatekeeping
- Pilots –not planned to scale up
- We need to care for the carer
- Need linkages with social policy and particularly with
such issues as employment creation etc.
- If we can only do one thing – we should invest in
people
- We need to listen more – especially to children
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UN Guidelines
- 2009 UN Guidelines for the Alternative
Care of Children
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