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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/55518/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output.Developing Family-Based Care: Complexities in Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/50105/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. AbstractThe authors draw on their experience of developing Moving Forward (Cantwell et al, 2012), an international handbook directed toward legislators, policy-makers and decision-makers designed to facilitate the implementation of a new United Nations framework: the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children. The paper proposes that these Guidelines have ushered in a new international rights-based policy framework for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, acknowledges the global nature of the issue and reviews a growing body of international literature. The paper first examines key debates on young people leaving care and then discusses policy orientations, illustrated with reference to a range of practice examples. A number of themes emerge which mirror those within the literature and additional issues identified, particularly the value of the more intangible emotional supports which young care-leavers need. The paper considers the issues in the context of a children's rights framework, notes the traditional lack of a rights-oriented discourse in this area, and suggests that in all countries, more strategic collaborative efforts need to be undertaken by a range of actors to improve the poor life chances of many of these young people when they 'leave care'.

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