Child care system reform

Purpose of the Forum and Concept of the

Agenda

By: Anna Nordenmark Severinsson, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS

UNICEF

Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

Preparatory process

• Assessment on status of reform, data collection and mapping of child protection systems – suggestions for next steps in the development of child care systems.

• Identification of main stumbling blocks – common for all countries at preparatory meeting in October 2008.

• Case studies in two countries – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

UNICEF

Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

Conceptual framework – whole system reform

Republic of Azerbaijan: Child Protection Institutional SystemRepublic of Azerbaijan: Child Protection Institutional System

National and District level. Subordination, reporting, referral and monitoring lines.

Ministry of Justice

Council of Trustees on rights of young

offenders

Public Monitoring Council for

justice issues

Ministry of InteriorDepartment ofprevention and profilaxis of adolescents

Counter ,Trafficking Unit

Ministry of Education

Department for adoptions

Ministry of Health

Department for adoptions

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Labour & Social Security

Department of Social support

VTEK – Medical Commission

Department for disabled and lonely people

Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism

Child coordination council

Transit centres (3)

Street children, children in conflict with the law, victims

of trafficking

Police units and stations:

temporary detention (KPZ)

Children with disabilities and children without parental care (4-18)

Presidential Apparatus

Medical Psycho-pedagogical commission

Children with disabilities and children without parental care (0-3)

Children with disabilities and family allowances

Psycho-neurological dispensaries (Polyclinics)

Dwelling Units and Public

consumptions (Jeks):

(Pedagogues)

Children in conflictwith the law and

adoptions

Institutes for children with severe disabilities

NGOs: drop in centre for street children, homes

for victim of trafficking,

psychological support

Cabinet of MinistersDeputy PMfor Humanitarian Deputy PM Issues Committee for Refugees and IDPs,

Homes and schools for

children with

disabilities

Rieducation schools for

boys

NGOs: day care centres for children with

disabilities;SOS village

Executive CommitteeExecutive Committee

Public Prosecutor

Detention Centres

Home education

Commission on Minors Commission on

Guardianship and Adoption:

Child Protection Inspectors

Education Authority (psycho-

pedagogical commissions)

SOBES: allowances

for disabilities,

IDPs, refugees, families

VTEK –Medical

Commission for disabilities

Depart-ment of

JEKS

Child IDPs, Refugees, Asylum seekers

Baby homes (incl. Psycho-neurological problems)

Homes and schools for children

deprived of parental care

Rehabiliation centre

Sanatoriums for chronic diseases (including STD)

OMD: emergency unit for children

abandoned at birth

Isolation Centres during investigations

(SIZO)

Judge of preliminary

inquiry

Court

Deputy Minister:national coordinator

Child inspectors

UNICEF

Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

Family Support Services

Family Substitute Services

Preventive Services

Statutory Services

Fundamental Concept:Continuum of Services

UNICEF

Reform of the Child Care System: Taking stock and accelerating action

Agenda blocks – addressing stumbling blocks• Addressing the fragmentation of system through agreeig on the main

functions of the system and how to organize them at:– National level – harmonization of roles and mandates between actors in the

reform (national, regional, local levels, sectors, private service providers) to perform a gatekeeping role (Plenary 2)

– Local level – developing a continuum of services (Breakout sessions 1-3)

• Overcoming dominance of residential care institutions (Plenary 3):– Through National planning for restructuring of institutions and

development of services at local level.• Operationalizing the policies and legislation (Plenary 5):

– Costing, budgetting and reallocation of resources– Transition funding and fiscal space for reforms