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- Influencing the use of EU funds in the best interest of children through reviewed EU cooperation framework
- High-level event brings lack of foster care in Greece into the spotlight
- EU commits to supporting deinstitutionalisation in landmark decision
- From Care to Aftercare: What's good enough in Ireland?
- From institutions to community: Spain reflects on the model of care for children
- Opening Doors meeting puts spotlight on ending institutional care in Europe
- Opening Doors joins the global community in Malta to get the campaign’s message across
- ECHR: NGOs can now bring States to court to protect people without defence
- Ending institutionalisation and strengthening family- and community-based care for children in Europe and beyond
- A call to Action to the Bulgarian Government
- Romania commits to ending institutional care for children under three
- Mapping institutional and residential care for children in Greece
- Opening Doors to Europe’s Children is scaling up in Croatia
- Child Protection System Reform in the Hellenic Republic – Call to Action
- European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC)
- Are European Structural and Investment Funds opening doors for Europe’s institutionalised children in the 2014-2020 programming period?
- Deinstitutionalisation and Quality Alternative Care – Lessons learned and the way forward
- DI Myth Buster
- Opening Doors contributes to the report on the use of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation
- Common European Guidelines on the Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care
- Opening Doors contributes to UNOHCHR report on children’s rights investment
- Toolkit on the Use of European Union Funds for the Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care
- Promoting the Rights of Children in Alternative Care in Europe
- Belgium plans to resume child detention in 2018
- Home stretch for deinstitutionalisation reform in Bulgaria
- Institutional care should only be used as a last resort, says the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child report in Serbia
- The Illusion of Protection -- National Audit of the Child Protection System in Ukraine
- Screening Report on Serbia puts institutionalisation of most vulnerable children under spotlight
- Serbia considers opportunities for strengthening families
- After 20 years of waiting, foster care law in Belgium gets finally adopted: but who are the stakeholders?
- Caring family for every child: Croatia launches a national campaign to promote foster care
- Opening Doors campaign officially launched in EU Neighbourhood countries
- Commissioner Andor wishes for DI to be reinforced for most vulnerable children
- Opening Doors launches a new publication to answer essential questions about deinstitutionalisation
- Opening Doors national coordinators meet in Brussels to accelerate change through joint action
- Poverty pushing children into institutions: 11 country snapshots
- Working seminar “Ensuring children’s rights in the context of deinstitutionalisation in Belgium”
- A historic breakthrough in the EU’s legislative landscape
- Yearly NGO assessment of National Reform Programmes says DI is a “key challenge”
- Council of the EU adopts conclusions on community-based support and care for independent living
- Deinstitutionalisation in Poland: Time for a National Strategy
- “I Want a Home”: Romania organizes first conference for care-experienced youth
- Campaigners are calling for nationwide closure of institutions in Hungary
- Commission and Parliament support civil society involvement in structural funds spending
- Children's Week in Bosnia and Herzegonvina profiles alternatives to institutional care
- EU funds to be used to close 50 state care institutions for children in Romania
- Spain advocates for a change of the care model for children
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Minister restates commitment to deinstitutionalisation
- Young person with disability addresses EU authorities at UNCRC celebrations and condemns institutional care for children
- Press Release – Ending systematic violations of children’s rights in Greece – a way forward
- Ending the era of institutional care in Europe must be a priority: for every child, in every community
- 2017 in Review: Key Developments Towards Child Protection Reforms Across Europe
- Czech NGOs call for an immediate action to change the care system for children at risk
- European Commission presents toolkit on the use of EU funds for integration
- Bulgarian authorities receive a score of 3.20 out of 6 for the child care
- With EU funding and influence, the end of institutional care for children is in sight
- 'Opening Doors' has a new partner in Moldova – CERI International
- Turkey's Services for Children-in-need: A short analysis
- Opening Doors for Europe's Children Launched in Estonia
- On International Day of Persons with Disability Opening Doors campaign calls for more inclusive societies
- Ending the era of institutional care in Europe: Call for Action
- The case of a child with Down syndrome that from Maternity Ward was placed directly into an institution
- “Looking Back, Looking Forward” 2013-2016 Progress Report
- Progress in deinstitutionalisation of Europe’s children continues but still far to go
- 2018 Country Factsheets
- Greek system of child protection requires a prompt action
- How the 2021-2027 EU budget can end the institutionalisation of children in Europe
- 2014 Country Factsheets
- 2015 Country Factsheets
- Bulgaria updates its Action Plan on Deinstitutionalisation
- 2016 Country Factsheets
- A national strategy in Poland for DI?
- Artists join campaign against institutional care in Ukraine
- Opening doors for Europe’s children campaign launched
- Deinstitutionalisation in Belgium must ensure children’s rights, experts say
- 2017 Country Factsheets
- Children and young people in Estonia ask for a better alternative care system
- A year on from the Investing in children Recommendation
- Deinstitutionalization under the spotlight at European Parliament – Discussing the way forward
- Children and Young People Manifesto on Child Protection in Estonia
- Delay in reforms leads to systematic abuse of children’s rights in Bulgaria
- Mariya Gabriel MEP welcomes Bulgarian family to the European Parliament
- Greece: the lack of cash hits the child protection system
- Demonstrating DI in Romania
- Lithuania: Minister of Social Security is misusing social care funds, the President says
- Bulgaria should speed up deinstitutionalisation reforms, Human Rights Commissioner says
- New Serbian Prime Minister Brnabic highlights importance of deinstitutionalisation in the keynote speech
- New Action Plan for Deinstitutionalisation in Croatia
- Strengthening Families, Ending Institutional Care: Recommendations to the European Union on post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework
- The situation worsens for vulnerable children and families in Hungary
- Bosnia & Herzegovina to improve standards for alternative care services
- Maintain, strengthen, expand: civil society recommendations for the reform of child protection through the post-2020 EU budget
- Calling for investment in better care for children
- Children hit twice by the Ukrainian conflict
- Bureaucracy should never get in the way of realising children’s rights
- Presidential Order calls for family support across Ukraine
- Make child protection reform an investment priority!
- Austria improves educational outcomes for youth in care through better EU investments
- Greece's forgotten children - Almost 3000 children stuck in institutions, new study says
- ENIL Freedom Drive 2017 - Registration deadline extended
- Contributing to the Human Rights Dialogue with Moldova
- Europe’s civil society calls on the EU to reinforce and expand its pivotal role towards children’s deinstitutionalisation
- High level support for Deinstitutionalisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Round table “Ensuring children's rights in the context of deinstitutionalisation in Belgium”
- Bosnia and Herzegovina becomes a step closer towards transformation of its child protection system
- Poverty remains a Europe-wide cause of children’s institutionalisation, campaign's latest fact sheets reveal
- Campaign Video - Phase I
- New report on use of ESIF funds for institutionalised children
- Maximising the Use of EU funds – Supporting DI Reforms in Bulgaria: Good and Bad Practices
- Campaign Video – Phase II
- European Parliament votes for stronger rules governing post-2020 EU funds
- Interview: Unlocking funding for DI in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Why it is crucial to end orphanage-style care systems in Europe
- Children with disabilities are left out of deinstitutionalisation reform in Serbia, child rights activists say
- Our contribution to EDF’s alternative report on the rights of persons with disabilities
- NEW UN RESOLUTION SUPPORTS INVESTMENT IN STRENGTHENING FAMILIES AND ENDING INSTITUTIONAL CARE
- Opening Doors, Pan-European De-Institutionalization Campaign, Celebrates Its Achievements Upon Closure
- Opening Doors contributes to the new legislation on family-based care in Greece
- “Investing in family- and community-based care means fulfilling children’s rights”, Opening Doors said at IFCO conference
- 100,000 children in Ukraine confined to Soviet-style orphanage system that resists reform
- Belgium: segregation policies in Flemish schools breach the rights of children with disabilities, European Committee of Social Rights says
- Deinstitutionalisation under the spotlight at Moldova Human Rights Experts’ Meeting
- European Commission backs accelerated reform in Bosnia and Serbia
- “Child abandonment can be prevented, we’ve opened the public authorities’ eyes on this” Opening Doors Greek coordinator says
- Enlargement Package and Progress Report Consultations: Serbia & Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The Illusion of Protection
- Better public spending, EU Ombudsman’s proposals on ESIF funds
- Family-based care is now prevailing over institutions for children in Latvia
- Local NGOs join Opening Doors campaign in Ukraine
- Opening Doors campaign reacts to the EU Commission’s Country-Specific Recommendations
- Children in care: a call to action to the Bulgarian government
- Lessons Learned and Recommendations to Strengthen Families and End Institutionalisation for Children in Europe
- Romania: Ministry of Family and Social Protection commits to families support in DI process
- Contributing to EU Human Rights Dialogue with Ukraine
- Ukraine President commits to support for families
- The EU Disability strategy post-2020: only with appropriate support children with disabilities can fully enjoy their rights
- Training of professionals working with children in care is the first step to promote community living in Greece, says campaign’s National Coordinator
- Independent living for all, institutions are not an option: Supporting ENIL's 2017 Freedom Drive
- Care reform in Croatia: bridge funding with expertise, say campaigners
- Bulgarian Government restates commitment to closing children’s institutions
- Moldova: advocating for social services for the benefit of all children and their families
- ‘Opening Doors for Europe’s Children’ campaign enters new phase
- "Dignity + Independent living = DI (Deinstitutionalisation)": Conference Highlights
- IPA II Funding secured in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Case studies
- Hugo – Spain
- Maksym - Ukraine
- Nicolai - Moldova
- Louisa – Belgium
- Sena - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Valeria - Moldova
- Vira - Ukraine
- Matilda – Croatia
- Gylten – Croatia
- Alya – Bulgaria
- Georgi - Bulgaria
- Bojan - Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Anamarie - Romania
- Petia - Bulgaria
- Beniamin - Romania
- Sorin - Moldova
- Azra – Bosnia and Herzegovina