The Pursuit of Permanence: A Study of the English Child Care System, Ian Sinclair, Claire Baker, Jenny Lee and Ian Gibbs, London, Jessica Kingsley, 2007, pp. 320, ISBN 978143105954,  29.99

The recent swing towards a more conservative (Liberal) federal political agenda in Australia parallels similar trends in Canada. A basic tenet of this neo-conservative approach is the reduction of education, health and welfare budgets, along with tax cuts to encourage business and corporate development. Policies are presented within a free market, user pays, corporate framework. Program reductions are justified through an anti professional/reduced government philosophy. This paper analyses the development of the child care system in one province of Canada. The analysis demonstrates that, despite manifold distributions to the child care system, the lack of a constitutional dimension has left the program vulnerable. In the uproar over larger programs, the dismantling of a public system of child care is proceeding quietly and with little protest. Analyses of the activities that predicated this demise present a warning as comparable circumstances arise in Australia.

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The Subjective Well-Being of Portuguese Children in Foster Care, Residential Care and Children Living with their Families: Challenges and Implications for a Child Care System Still Focused on Institutionalization

Child Indicators Research ◽

10.1007/s12187-019-09652-4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 67-84

Author(s):

Paulo Delgado ◽

João M. S. Carvalho ◽

Carme Montserrat ◽

Joan Llosada-Gistau

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

Foster Care ◽

Residential Care ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Children In Foster Care ◽

Care System

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DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE CHILD CARE SYSTEM IN LITHUANIA

International Journal of Child Youth and Family Studies ◽

10.18357/ijcyfs114202019941 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (4.1) ◽

pp. 121-131

Author(s):

Jolanta Pivoriene

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

Necessary Conditions ◽

Institutional Care ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Community Based ◽

Political Discourses ◽

Qualitative Evidence ◽

To Receive ◽

Community Based Services ◽

Care System

The reform of the child care system in Lithuania started with the Ministry of Social Security and Labor approving the Strategic Guidelines for Deinstitutionalization in 2012, followed by the Transition from Institutional Care to Community-Based Services in 2014. The strategic aim of the reform was to create a system including a comprehensive range of services that would enable every child and their family or guardians to receive individual services as well as community assistance according to their needs. The process of transformation of institutional care was designed in two steps: creation of the necessary conditions for the transformation, which took place in 2014 to 2017, and development of infrastructure in the regions, planned for 2017 to 2020, but now extended to 2023. The goal of this article is to discuss the deinstitutionalization process by presenting legal regulations, information about the conceptualization and scope of the project, and evidence based on documents and statistical and secondary data analysis. I will also discuss possible contradictions between analytical and political discourses, and quantitative and qualitative evidence.

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