The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children progress report reflects on campaign’s achievements towards making a positive difference for hundreds of thousands of children across Europe during Phase I. With larger partnership and extended geography, it describes campaign’s transition into the second phase which is expected to run until the end of 2018.
View resourceFind below a compilation of evidence (as of June 2015) from 11 European countries which participated in the first phase of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign. It provides an overview of the characteristics and the functioning of the child protection system in each individual country and gives an update on the recent developments towards reforms on DI across Europe. Evidence has been compiled by the Opening Doors National Coordinators and was primarily sourced from the official state sources.
View resourceThe “first generation” of country snapshots collects evidence (as of 2014) on deinstitutionalisation (DI) and care reforms in 11 European countries that were part of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign in Phase I. The data on children in care in 2014 country fact files has been provided by the Opening Doors National Coordinators and was primarily sourced from the official state sources.
View resourceThe European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) is an evidence-based online platform which was launched in 2013 by the European Commission. EPIC aims to provide information about policies, programmes or practices that can help children and their families face up to the challenges that exist in the current economic climate in Europe.
View resourceJuly 2015 – Hope and Homes for Children and Eurochild
This policy position paper addresses main issues and offers solutions for the reform of the Child Protection System in Greece.
In an effort to better understand the situation of children in institutional care, Roots Research Centre, national coordinator of the Opening Doors campaign in Greece has conducted the first nation-wide mapping of institutional and residential care in the country. The study found that Greece has a patchwork of public and private institutions and residential care with little or no oversight of quality and no monitoring of the numbers of children and what happens to them.
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