‘Care to Change - Change to Care’ - SAVE THE DATE An Active Education Event for front line staff working with challenging people in complex settings MB3, Toddington, Gloucestershire GL54 5DQ 15th – 16th May 2020 (SAVE THE DATE) “An Active Education Event is a new approach to training tailored to the needs of front-line practitioners working in residential and foster care, HMPs, social care, mental health, education and the British Army. It is designed to provide a transformative learning experience blending a personal style of conference presentation with a series of experiential group events ultimately designed to engage the whole person by making connections between personal and profess
CRC@30 GENEVA 20 November 2019 KEY MESSAGES ON ALTERNATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN ONGOING CONCERNS (PREVENTION) 1) In accordance with the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, welcomed 10 years ago today by the UN General Assembly, States and any other responsible entities must make far greater efforts to ensure, in particular, that placements in alternative care are not carried out solely for reasons of family poverty or factors directly attributable to it. Often lacking so far is a fully-integrated child protection system grounded in a coordinated approach among the various services responsible for working with the family to address its needs. Establishing such a system is necessary
On 28 October, FICE International carried out its General Assembly and Federal Council meeting in Ben Shemen Youth Village in Israel. A total of 30 participants from more than 15 countries took part. According to the Statutes of the organization, the General Assembly meets once in 3 years (together with the FICE Congresses) in order to elect a new president. Although, due to the insufficient number of candidacies, the General Assembly had to vote whether the current co-presidency of Rolf Widmer (Switzerland) and Emmanuel Grupper (Israel) to be continued for another year. The members of the General Assembly members voted for the joint presidency to be continued until May next year, when an ex