Reforming child institutional care in the Post-Soviet bloc: The potential role of family-based empowerment strategies

Ismayilova, Leyla; Ssewamala, Fred M.; Huseynli, Aytakin

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.09.007

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“…Momentum towards the transformation of national care systems has multiple drivers, including the availability of global research; national commitment to international conventions, standards, and guidelines; accelerating economic growth, reduction of poverty, and welfare enhancement; and support from international, national, and local agencies. [83][84][85][86] Even when supportive of reducing institutionalisation, low-income countries generally have little capacity to provide access to quality services for child welfare and protection for a variety of reasons, including poor funding and inadequate human resources. [87][88][89] The policy priorities of governments often conflict between preventing institutional care and developing new services and transforming their care system.…”

Section: National Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors

Goldman¹,

Bakermans‐Kranenburg

Bradford³

et al. 2020

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

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Worldwide, millions of children live in institutions, which runs counter to both the UN-recognised right of children to be raised in a family environment, and the findings of our accompanying systematic review of the physical, neurobiological, psychological, and mental health costs of institutionalisation and the benefits of deinstitutionalisation of child welfare systems. In this part of the Commission, international experts in reforming care for children identified evidence-based policy recommendations to promote family-based alternatives to institutionalisation. Family-based care refers to caregiving by extended family or foster, kafalah (the practice of guardianship of orphaned children in Islam), or adoptive family, preferably in close physical proximity to the biological family to facilitate the continued contact of children with import ant individuals in their life when this is in their best interest. 14 key recommendations are addressed to multinational agencies, national governments, local authorities, and institutions. These recommendations prioritise the role of families in the lives of children to prevent child separation and to strengthen families, to protect children without parental care by providing high-quality family-based alternatives, and to strengthen systems for the protection and care of separated children. Momentum for a shift from institutional to family-based care is growing internationallyour recom mend ations provide a template for further action and criteria against which progress can be assessed.

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Section: National Contextmentioning

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Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors

Goldman¹,

Bakermans‐Kranenburg

Bradford³

et al. 2020

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

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“…It is well established in international literature that keeping families together is optimal for child wellbeing (Corcoran and Wakia, 2016; Ismayilova et al, 2014; Rosenthal and Ahern, 2013; Todorova, 2009). However, apathy, poor acknowledgement of the needs of the poorest of people, and participation in a social mindset in Indonesia that institutions are good for impoverished children or resigning to administrative status quo in favour of earning incentive payments, all dominate current social work administrative practices.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Incentive-based Social Welfare Administration in Indonesia: Implications for sustainable development in women’s and children’s protection

McLaren

Qonitah

Widianingsih

2020

International Social Work

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This article brings together two discrete studies of Indonesian welfare innovations, the conditional cash transfer and the deinstitutionalisation of children, both delivered at the lowest administrative level by social workers. Patterns across the two studies indicated a confounding variable influential in social workers’ innovation implementation and administrative decisions. This variable, incentive-based remuneration, was inhibiting implementation and potentially sustaining the social inequalities and rights violations that each innovation proposed to address. Social workers’ over-reliance on remuneration incentives has inherent problems. Increases to base-rates of pay and realignment of incentivisation in development are needed to support change.

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“…Several of them experience challenges with their education, some even dropping out of school which increases the risk of child labour and marriage (Save the Children, ). Different studies (Freidus, ; Ismayilova and others, ; Muguwe and others, ; Walakira and others, ) have shown children returned to impoverished families suffer social isolation, stigmatisation and maltreatment. A study in Sri Lanka where children reunified with economically disempowered families experienced competition and rivalry among siblings for limited food and resources, leading to antagonism towards the reunified children (De Silva and Punchihewa, ).…”

Section: International Literature On Family Reunificationmentioning

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The Challenges Facing Children Reunified With Their Families From an Orphanage in Ghana

Frimpong‐Manso

Bugyei²

2018

Children & Society

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This qualitative case study explores the challenges facing children reunified with their families from an orphanage in Ghana. Eight children, their biological families, and two social workers participated in semi‐structured interviews and shared their experiences and views. The study found that challenges facing the children include educational issues, poor living conditions and social isolation within their communities. The factors causing the challenges included the financial difficulties facing caregivers due to the lack of support, limited preparation for the children and their families for the reunification and the children's limited participation in the decisions concerning such reunification.

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Reforming child institutional care in the Post-Soviet bloc: The potential role of family-based empowerment strategies

Cited by 17 publications

References 94 publications

Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors

Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors

Incentive-based Social Welfare Administration in Indonesia: Implications for sustainable development in women’s and children’s protection

The Challenges Facing Children Reunified With Their Families From an Orphanage in Ghana

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