Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (FutureLearn)

What topics will you cover?

Week 1 - Introduction to the Guidelines, the Principles, and Gatekeeping

Week 2 - Upholding the ‘necessity principle’: Supporting and Strengthening Families

Week 3 - Upholding the ‘necessity principle’: High-Risk Children and Gatekeeping

Week 4 - Upholding the ‘suitability principle’: Selecting from a Range of Formal Care Settings

Week 5 - Upholding the ‘suitability principle’: Deinstitutionalisation

Week 6 - Leaving Care

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Understanding the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and how to apply them

- Understanding the concepts of necessity and suitability as it is applied to alternative care

- Understanding how to apply full and meaningful participation of children and young people in decisions about their care

- Understanding policy requirements for the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

- Understanding good practice in prevention of family separation, provision of suitable alternative care, family reunification and the process of leaving care

- Understanding the aims and practice of Gatekeeping

- Understanding the aims and practice of deinstitutionalisation