Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children available as publication!

SOS Children’s Villages International and the International Social Service are pleased to launch the publication “Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children: A United Nations framework”, with a foreword from Yanghee Lee, the Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. It includes the text of the Guidelines and sets of introductory questions reflecting on national policy.

United Nations adopted a resolution welcoming the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

SOS Children's Villages International is very pleased to announce that on 20 November 2009 the United Nations General Assembly in New York adopted a resolution welcoming the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children. Over the last five years, SOS Children's Villages International has been a leading organisation in supporting the development of these Guidelines and promoting them towards adoption.