• Street children and youth

Street children and youth

This report provides a global overview of the general situation of children without parental care as well as children at risk of loosing parental care. It offers insights and new directions for strategic developments by SOS Children’s Villages building upon SOS Children’s Villages’ existing competencies and ‘a Child’s Right to a Family’ position paper. The authors conclude that common implications of rights based analysis for organisations working in the out-of-home child-care sector include:

• scale up prevention and family strengthening work
• ensure application of quality standards in all aspects of the organisation’s work
• collect, analyse and monitor data concerning which children the organisation works with. Disaggregate information in relation to: gender, age, disability, ethnicity, family status, reasons for admission etc
• carry out a re-assessment of children within existing care settings to determine if there are any children who could be re-unified with their families with a package of family support
• re-train some residential staff as community based mobilisers and family supporters
• engage with governments as primary duty bearers and strengthen their role in developing appropriate policies and practices which ensure access for all children to basic services, and strengthen the role of families and communities in providing care and protection of all marginalized children
• strengthen advocacy work on root causes of family separation, including: poverty, discrimination, violence and HIV/AIDS; as well as access to basic services
• form alliances with other key agencies to strengthen child right constituencies
• empower children and families to assert their rights. Empower girls and boys to participate in all decisions affecting their lives, including policies affecting them.
  

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