Home-based: Child Protection Consultant (36 working days between Feb 2024 and Mar 2025) – Europ[...]

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Overview UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children.

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To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up. For every child, protection.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment To develop a white paper on statutory family support services as part of an effective gate-keeping system in Europe and Central Asia Region.

Background The Convention of the Rights of the Child, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children all recognise that the ideal setting for a child to grow up is within a family environment that provides a nurturing and loving atmosphere.

After decades of evidence-based advocacy and policy dialogue, many governments in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region have led significant reforms to close or transform large-scale institutions and replace them with community- and family-based care services and put in place family support services and gate-keeping mechanisms to prevent children from being unnecessarily separated from their families and placed in care.

Continued investment and momentum is required to ensure that no child is left behind in institutional care that these reforms are completed and are irreversible. After over 20 years of efforts to transition child care