Social Inclusion for Out-of-family Children and Young People in Public Childcare

Main objectives / Summary of the Project

The project aims to promote the social inclusion of out-of-family children and young people, in state

of abandonment or removal from birth family for a long period and institutionalised in Public

Childcare residential placements. The objective is to promote the development and improvement of

alternative family-based childcare options (as fostering or adoption), in order to guarantee the right

forevery child to live and grow-up in a family upbringing, to favourite the educational-social-affective

relationship and to prevent the condition of social exclusion for those care-leavers who left the

childcare protection services. For that reason, the project intends to develop a programme of

exchanging of policies and best practices on this topics among Public Authorities, NGOs and

Universities committed in Family and Children Affairs in several countries representative of different

European regions: Western countries (Italy and France), New Member Eastern countries (Latvia)

and Candidate Eastern countries (Bulgaria and Romania). The expected outputs will be the

production of methodological best practices and political recommendations for social workers and

politician, in order to address services and policies to vulnerable families and children at risk of

abandonment.