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Institutional Care (incl. boarding schools)
Includes standards and outcomes on planning for care, quality of care, complaints and protection, care and control, staffing, and administration.
Moving Forward: Implementing the 'Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children'
Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) | 2013
This new handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ is aimed at legislators, policy-makers and decision-makers, as well as professionals and care providers, to support the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. It explains the key thrusts of the Guidelines, outlines the kind of policy responses required, and describes ‘promising’ examples of efforts already made to apply them in diverse communities, countries, regions and cultures.
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Child-Friendly Standards and Guidelines for the Recovery and Integration of Trafficked Children
International Labor Organization | 2006
Standards for shelters and care providers responding to children who have been trafficked. It gives guidance and practice examples of intake procedures, interim and longer term care, support services, integration and reunification
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Guidelines for the Design of Centres for Street Children
Barbara Brink, UNESCO | 1997
Ideas and country examples on how to create or transform an educational centre for children living and working on the street.
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National Care Standards. School Care Accomodation Services
Scottish Executive | 2005
A set of standards for boarding and residential schools. It outlines what young people can expect when they receive school care accommodation services from a registered/regulated provider.
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Residential Special Schools, National Minimum Standards. Inspection Regulations
Department of Health, UK | 2002
A set of standards for ensuring the welfare protection of children in residential special schools. It includes standards and outcomes relating to children’s rights, protection, and care, as well as staffing, organization and management.
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Boarding Schools, National Minimum Standards: Inspection Regulations
Department of Health, England | 2002
A set of standards for ensuring welfare protection at boarding schools. It includes standards and outcomes that outline a school’s welfare policies and procedures, organization and management, welfare support to boarders, staffing, and premises.
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Guidelines for the Operation of Care Facilities for Victims of Trafficking and Violence Against Women and Girls
John Frederick for Planete Enfants | 2005
Operational standards and guidance for residential care facilities for girls and women survivors of trafficking and abuse. It covers administration and staff, confidentiality, care planning, responding to immediate and longer term support needs, psychosocial care, life skills and reintegration activities.
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Children's Homes National Minimum Standards: Children's Homes Regulations
Department of Health, England | 2002
A set of standards for ensuring positive welfare, health and education in children’s homes. It includes standards and outcomes on planning for care, quality of care, complaints and protection, care and control, environment, staffing, management and administration, and specialist provision.
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Standards for Children's Homes in Guyana
Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Guyana | 2010
A set of standards for measurable quality in service provision for children living in homes. Outlines the rights of a child, planning and legalizing children’s care, children’s home administration, management and staffing, and safeguarding child welfare while in the home, which includes nutrition, health, education and religion.
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National Care Standards: Care Homes for Children and Young People
Scottish Executive | 2005
A set of standards for residential settings, including the young person’s welcome into care, the quality of care they should receive, contact arrangements, and listening and responding to the views of young people.
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Manual for Social Workers: Dealing with Child Victims of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
UNICEF & the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Women and Child Development, Government of India | 2005
A comprehensive guide to the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
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