9. Children: continuum of risk and protective factors Family and personal assets (Family cohesion, parental health, skills, jobs, Child health, ability, etc.) Family and child support measures A Universal family and child benefits and services B Specialized family support services C Substitute care services (adoption, foster care, residential, care) Mounting risks Support requirement A B C Low risk level Medium risk level High risk level Absence of parental care
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13. A few examples of social protection and insurance schemes Priority area Conditional cash transfers Universal pensions Minimum nutrition vouchers Day care services Child survival If child immunized Income for medicines Increased nutrition Hygiene training Education If child sent to school Income for school supplies Increased school attendance Developmental readiness HIV/ AIDS If child orphaned Income for caring for orphans Assist in caring for orphans Protection If child not sent to work Reduce marginalization
14. Child protection, Social protection, Social policy Education Health Social Welfare Child Welfare services benefits Violence prevention Referral Prevention Identification Referral Children in the justice system Social Policy Social protection Child protection
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What do we mean by the child protection system? The CP system per se - does not exist as distict « entity », however, we can envision it if we map-out the obligations for child protection within the whole social sector and the justice system. These represent the petals of our child protection system flower! The red circle in the middle illustrates, that only some parts and some aspects of each sector bare specific obligations for child protection. For example, although t he social welfare system has the main accountability for child protection, its mandate includes also provisions for vulnerable adults and elderly. Or within the Justice –it is juvenile justice part that has specific mandate for children, or within education it is about provisions for inclusive education and for protection from violence, etc. None of the sectors in isolation can deliver results if other systems have not assumed their obligations for child protection. Hence, the interaction and coordination between sectors as well as at the national and sub-national levels is a MUST. So, in a long run – our strategic aim is to help establishing a child protection system that is intersectoral and cross- sectoral in nature and consists of a network ( continuum) of measures, structures and services – which are are guided by a common policy framework – rooted in children`s rights. Such system is able to prevent violations, identify them early, report, refer, address/treat individual cases of rights violations and of course it is able to provide all necessary and good quality services to eligible families and children. . In addition to this: It is essential to envision the child protection system so that our interventions are strategic and help building it. It is also essential to understand how the existing « systems » work and how are they organized, what obligations and accountabilities belong to different levels or what is regulating and governing the functioning of different parts (what role are playing the finances, mandates, or the standards for services or for professionals, what role play supervision, inspection and monitoring system etc.) And lastly – we need to keep in mind, that the network or the continuum of services is not compsed necesarily only of public services. Often there are also private service providers which need to be brough in within the common policy framework and guided by the same standards.