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Thematic Fact Sheets on Children Deprived of Parental Care

The ISS/IRC proposes a training/information series of fact sheets on the provision of care for children deprived of family or at risk of so being, those in need of adoption or who have already been adopted. 

The series is based, amongst others, on the Practical manual: The best interests of the child and adoption – Implementation of international conventions relating to child protection. This manual was produced thanks to an international cooperation project between the Italian Intercountry Adoption Commission and the governments of Albania, Bulgaria, Peru and Bolivia. The Italian Branch of the International Social Service and the ISS/IRC also contributed to its production, as well as various experts: Claudia Cabral, Carmela Cavallo, Anne Marie Crine, Anna Maria Fedele, Yolanda Galli, Helen Humphrey, Helen Jones, Isabelle Lammerant, Anna Maria Libri, Tomás Merín, Alessandra Moro, Silvia Nabinger, Maurizio Orlandi, Chantal Saclier, Anna Sanchez, Maria Scudellari, Francesco Viero and Robert Vitillo. It contains tables and texts previously drafted by Anne Marie Crine, Yolanda Galli, Silvia Nabinger, Chantal Saclier and Robert Vitillo (for the ISS/IRC), Alessandra Moro (for the ULSS16 adoption team – Padova), Helen Humphrey and Helen Jones (for the Department of Health in Great Britain). ISS acknowledges their intellectual property for part of this manual and the fact sheets, and thank them for their kind collaboration.

FIRST PART: THE ELABORATION OF A GLOBAL POLICY FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY

  1. The general framework
  2. Support for families in difficulty as a means of prevention of the child’s separation from the family of origin
  3. Permanency planning: The principles to be taken into account 
  4. Elaborating a permanency plan: Getting to know the child and his/her family 
  5. Elaborating a permanency plan: Getting to know the reality of the child in relation to his/her family of origin 
  6. Elaborating a lifelong plan: Preparation of the child 
  7. Elaborating a lifelong plan: Family reintegration 
  8. Elaborating a lifelong plan: Kinship care 
  9. Ensuring care proceedings: The decision to separate a child from his/her family environment 
  10. Ensuring care proceedings: The legal process 
  11. Termination of parental rights and consequences 
  12. Provisional protective measures: The Child's lifebook
  13. Provisional protective measures: Institutional placement, a provisional measure except in special cases 
  14. Provisional protective measures: The principles to be observed during the institutionalization of a child (1/3) 
  15. Provisional protective measures: The principles to be observed during the institutionalization of a child (2/3) 
  16. Provisional protective measures: The principles to be observed during the institutionalization of a child (3/3) 
  17. Provisional protective measures: Family placement

SECOND PART: THE ADOPTION

  1. General principles
  2. The adoptability of the child: objectives and responsibilities
  3. The determination of the adoptability of the child
  4. The adoptability of the child: the report on the child for proceeding with adoption
  5. The evaluation of the eligibility and the suitability of prospective adopters
  6. The evaluation of the eligibility and the suitability of prospective adopters: the report
  7. The evaluation of the candidates: the question of age
  8. Matching: conditions and criteria
  9. Preparing the child for adoption
  10. Preparing the prospective adoptive parents
  11. The meeting and the mutual acquaintance
  12. "Simple adoption" versus "Full adoption": the effects of adoption
  13. The follow-up and post-adoption services
  14. The search of origins

THIRD PART: THE INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION

  1. The global context of intercountry adoption 
  2. The legal and procedural context 
  3. Adoption between Hague and non Hague State parties 
  4. The principle of subsidiarity 
  5. Supranational and regional actors 
  6. The primary importance of cooperation between central authorities 
  7. Accredited adoption bodies of receiving States - AABs (I): The nature and advantages of their intervention 
  8. Accredited adoption bodies of receiving States - AABs (II): Indispensable conditions and supervision of their intervention
  9. Domestic accredited bodies in the countries of origin 
  10. The intercountry adoptability of the chid and the eligibilty of prospective adoptive parents
  11. Matching: The identification of a familiy for the child 
  12. The confirmation of matching, the meeting and the probationary period 
  13. Preparing the child for his inter-country adoption
  14. The preparation of prospective adoptive parents, the assistance in the country of origin and the adoption order 
  15. Post-adoption follow-up 
  16. The financial aspects

FOURTH PART: THE SPECIFIC CASES OF THE ADOPTION

  1. The adoption of children with special needs
  2. Relative adoption 
  3. Kafalah
  4. Adoption breakdown
  5. Preventing abuse and trafficking
  6. Bibliography of the Fact Sheet series
 

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