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  2. Convention on the Rights of the Child - Wikipedia

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    The country program for 2005-2009 was implemented in child protection, children's health and nutrition, children's education and youth health, and their development and participation. Also, UNICEF supports Azerbaijan in improving its juvenile justice system, establishing an alternative care system and raising awareness among youth about HIV/AIDS.

  3. Deinstitutionalisation (orphanages and children's institutions)

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    Deinstitutionalisation is the process of reforming child care systems and closing down orphanages and children's institutions, finding new placements for children currently resident and setting up replacement services to support vulnerable families in non-institutional ways. It became common place in many developed countries in the post war period.

  4. Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection

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    The revised name - Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection - reflects the centre's broader remit including supporting national and local child protection work in Scotland. [citation needed] CELCIS is a leading improvement and innovation centre. It is involved in supporting the implementation of policy into practice.

  5. Committee on the Rights of the Child - Wikipedia

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    The CRC is one of the ten UN human rights treaty-based bodies. [4] The committee was created by the convention on 27 February 1991. [5] The committee is made up of 18 members from different countries and legal systems who are of 'high moral standing' and experts in the field of human rights. Although members are nominated and elected by States ...

  6. Institutionalization of children with disabilities in Russia

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    Russian Orphanage. Institutionalization of children with disabilities in Russia is the placement of children, who have been abandoned or whose parents cannot support them, into a facility which can be similar to an orphanage. This often occurs in countries where alternative methods of care are not available. [1]

  7. William T. Gormley - Wikipedia

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    Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995). Privatization and its Alternatives edited (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991): Presents 14 different perspectives on privatization. Gormley provides a "unifying framework" in his introduction.

  8. Ethics of care - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by some feminists and environmentalists since the 1980s. [1]

  9. Residential child care community - Wikipedia

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    A community (origin: Latin communis, "shared in common") is a social unit of people who share e.g. norms, religion, values or identity. It is often tied to a specific geographic or virtual area. Residential child care communities operate on one or more than one campus, which connects the different units within the program.