The need for family-based and community-based alternative care has been mentioned often in these blogs. Many decades of research has shown that children do much better when they grow up in a family and as part of a community. However, it is important to understand what community-based care really means because too often there is a misunderstanding about this, with harmful effects on the child.
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Arranging Services
Having spent some time, recently, looking at the need for individual assessment and how to go about it, it seems useful to address another step in the process of deinstitutionalisation, namely that of mapping and setting up services. In order for children to move from an institution into the community – whether this is to go live with their parents again, to be placed in a foster family or small group home, or to enter supported living – they are going to require the support of a range of services. This means that these services have to be present before the child is moved.
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