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Specific Needs of Children and Elderly Left Behind
as a Consequence of Migration
For local public administration
- To keep a record and asses the needs of children left behind as a
consequence of migration, the living conditions of families that
take care of these children inclusively and their capacity to provide
adequate and secure conditions necessary for the child’s development.
To map these needs and to develop appropriate services;
- To provide school meals for children of all ages in educational institutions,
including providing payment, in order to reduce the risk
of malnutrition. To encourage and support educational institutions
in providing children with healthy food and to forbid fast-food in
schools and in their immediate neighbourhood;
- To improve the activity of guardianship authorities in identifying,
referring and helping children left behind as a consequence of migration
and to establish partnerships at the local level;
- To expand the network of social assistance and psychological services
in communities as well as foster family services (professional
parental care, family-type homes for children, etc.);
- To inform migrant parents and family members on their duties,
and when parents intend to migrate abroad, to inform them on the
necessity to place the child within a temporary guardianship;
For social community workers
- To keep a record and asses the needs of children deprived of parental
care as a consequence of migration, including the living conditions of
families that take care of these children and their capacity to provide
adequate and secure conditions necessary for the child’s development;
- To establish an effective partnership with educational institutions,
medical institutions and other community actors in order to prevent
children left behind as a consequence of migration from experiencing
difficult situations;
For educational institutions for children
- To supervise children left behind as a consequence of migration;
- To ensure within educational institutions, opportunities for communication
between parents and their children who remained at
home. Also ensuring the teachers’ participation thus increasing the
level of accountability of both children and parents;
- To develop extra-curriculum activities in schools (workshops, interest
clubs, etc.) in order to facilitate social integration of children left
behind as a consequence of their parents’ migration;
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