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The Framework Looks at 6 Systems Components Across Different Types of Care

The document outlines a framework consisting of six system components essential for care reform, including laws and policies, social service workforce, service delivery, monitoring and evaluation, financing, and social norms. It also discusses various areas of care such as prevention of child-family separation, kinship care, foster care, independent living, adoption, and residential care. Each component and area emphasizes the importance of structured support and standards in the care system.

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The Framework Looks at 6 Systems Components Across Different Types of Care

The document outlines a framework consisting of six system components essential for care reform, including laws and policies, social service workforce, service delivery, monitoring and evaluation, financing, and social norms. It also discusses various areas of care such as prevention of child-family separation, kinship care, foster care, independent living, adoption, and residential care. Each component and area emphasizes the importance of structured support and standards in the care system.

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The

framework
looks at 6
systems
components
across
different
types of care
6 System Components
1 Laws and policies for care reform includes legal provisions, national policies,
strategies and/ or guidelines, orientation/ training for legal and policy
frameworks, and regulatory and oversight documents related to care reform

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and/or alternative care services.

Social service workforce in the context of care may include:


Paraprofessionals: para-social workers, youth-care professionals,
community care workers, etc.
Social workers: government social workers, non-governmental social
workers, etc.
Allied workers: health care specialists, therapists, child protection
specialists, community development officers, etc.
6 System Components
3 Service delivery looks at the type of preventions and alternative care services
that exist and if they are guided by national service standards (a.k.a. minimum

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service standards).

Monitoring & evaluations considers standard indicators, clear roles and


responsibilities for relevant actors and M&E procedures promotes data availability,

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quality and use.

Financing is the degree to which basic financial processes are occurring, such as
cost estimation, budgeting, funding allocation and the release of funds.

6 Social norms & practices looks at if awareness raising activities are occurring and
promoting best-practices.
Areas of Care
Prevention of unnecessary child-family separation examples include
community awareness regarding infant needs and child rights, access
to child care, household economic strengthening (including cash
transfers), parenting skills training, parental leave, family-friendly
workplace policies, early child care and education and health services.
Child-family reunification and reintegration is the process of a
separated child making what is anticipated to be a permanent
transition back to his or her family and communtiy (usually of origin).
Areas of Care
Kinship care is the full-time care of a child by a relative or another
member of the extended family.
Foster care refers to formal placements with certified foster carers
(although in some countries informal foster care does exist).
Other forms of care, aka ‘informal care’ is a private arrangement
provided whereby the child is looked after by kin or community
member.
Areas of Care
Independent living a gradual and supervised process whereby older
children live on their own with support.
Adoption is the formal, permanent transfer of parental right to a
family other than a child’s own.
Residential care refers to any non-family-based group living
arrangement where children are looked after by paid staff in a
specially designated facility.

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