Development of the National Strategy for Action on Children for 2012–2017 implemented in two phases (2012–2014 and 2015–2017) coincided with the Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the Child for 2012–2015, and the new Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the Child for 2016–2022 takes effect in 2016. Author provides description of a new European instrument: the main current challenges in the field of children safeguarding; top areas and measures to respond to these challenges; methods to implement the strategy including based on the recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to the Member States. The article gives examples of Russia’s accession to the international legal community through the ratification of various conventions that allowed to take domestic measures to ensure international standards to secure children from such crimes as trafficking in children, underage prostitution and por- nography, sexual abuse. The present paper examines opportunity to take into ac- count the new European guidelines and standards in Russian childhood policy and describes action taken in Russia to protect children’s rights as a response to the integrated European challenges, taking into account social and cultural differences.
The article presents the rationale for the theoretical construct ‘subjective well-being of orphans’, its operational model, as well as the reliability and validity of a specially designed standardized interview (SI) for measuring and assessing both the general level of subjective well-being and its specific areas (SWB).The subjective well-being of a child is viewed from the position of his/her satisfaction with the ‘system of own attitudes’ to himself, to others, to the environment, to his/her ‘chronotope’.The operational assessment model built on its basis included 10 domains that built the basis of SI. The tool was tested on a sample of 498 orphanage residents aged 13 to 17 years. Its reliability, internal consistency, correctness and validity have been proven: meaningful, constructive (Cronbach’s coefficient “α” α k = 0.741); convergent (at the level of high statistical significance, SI indicators correlate with the method of M. Rosenberg, as well as with the results of the “Vi ability” test (Osin E.N., Rasskazova E.I., screening version); criterial (correlation analysis revealed the stable relationships between indicators of subjective well-being and institutional experience (r = 0.017, p = 0.702).
The article describes the first phase results of the initial actions of the National Strategy for Action on Children 2012–2017, identifies the place and role, the main tasks of monitoring made by Moscow State University of Psychology & Education at the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. It is noted that in order to monitor and provide methodological support to the regions of the Russian Federation, Information and Methodical Center on Support of the National Strategy for Action on Children was established. Monitoring includes several stages and it was attended by 86 Russian regions. We present the main content of each stage, the results of expert analysis of monitoring data in key areas and key activities of the National Strategy, best practices and identified problems in the implementa- tion of the National Strategy.
We analysed the role of socially oriented NGOs and volunteer services in the implementation of the objectives of National Strategy for Action on Children 2012–2017 and priority activities in the provision of services to vulnerable children and their families. The article provides the examples of innovative social practices and technologies developed and implemented by NGOs, which become generally accepted, widely used, and codified later. We show the role of the nonprofit institutions for the implementing the international experience. There is an increasing of the role of socially oriented NGOs as a partner of the regional authorities in the formulation and implementation of social policy modernization in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation over the past few years, including the organi- zation of interdepartmental and multidisciplinary interaction. The paper provides detailed analysis of the significance of the volunteer institution in the creation of conditions for development and socialization of children-orphans and children with disabilities, to identify further relevant activities in the context of deinstitu- tionalization of children in different categories without parental care, and trans- ferred to family care forms. The analysis showed that effective socially oriented NGOs, volunteer movements and public sector hampered by inadequate legal framework, weak activity of charitable organizations at the municipal level, the uncertainty of the evaluation of the action of NGOs and its effectiveness (lack of evaluation criteria), lack of staff training system for NCOs, "the fear of the authorities” is to transfer certain functions and powers as the national partner, the false perception of NGOs as a source of wealth and additional resources.
<p>The article discusses the relevance and grounds for the creation of a comprehensive system of professional development of specialists of guardianship and guardianship (OOIP) in relation to minors who are state and municipal employees. Currently, there is no system of specialized professional training of OOIP specialists within the framework of secondary and higher education. The article analyzes the experience of conducting advanced training courses and the work of the only master's degree in the country in the direction of "Specialist OOIP in relation to minors", which combines two models: "inconsistent", since there is no consistent bachelor's degree, and "advanced training", designed for people who already have work experience. The conducted research on a sample of 1080 OOIP specialists revealed the specifics of their work, psychological well-being, educational needs, and the relevance of master's degree studies. The analysis of professional development programs showed that psychological and pedagogical disciplines occupy about 50% of the volume. The study revealed the presence of new trends: confessional competencies required to work with families of different faiths, competencies in the field of digitalization of specialists' activities, mediation skills, the ability to work in an interdepartmental and multidisciplinary team, the ability to identify the opinion of a child of any age on issues affecting his interests are in demand. It is shown that the system of training of OOIP specialists includes professional and personal self-development and self-improvement, one of the forms of which are professional skill contests. The innovation of recent years has been the creation of resource centers in the regions that provide methodological support, consulting, organization and maintenance of a closed group in a social network, supervision, training events for OOIP specialists. It is recommended to include in the regional professional development programs, in addition to advanced training courses, other elements of the personnel management system: planning, organization, selection, motivation, stimulation, control, as well as career management of OOIP specialists.</p>
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