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Child Caring Course: Understanding Alternative Care - FutureLearn

Learn how to use UN Guidelines as a framework and how, where necessary, placing a child in alternative care can be a suitable, positive experience for children.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Understanding the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and how to apply them
Understanding the concepts of necessity and suitability as it is applied to alternative care
Understanding how to apply full and meaningful participation of children and young people in decisions about their care
Understanding policy requirements for the implementation of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
Understanding good practice in prevention of family separation, provision of suitable alternative care, family reunification and the process of leaving care
Understanding the aims and practice of Gatekeeping
Understanding the aims and practice of deinstitutionalisation