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Despite Greece enacting a breakthrough law on foster care in 2018, most children in out of home care remain in institutions. Mary Theodoropoulou, Director of Roots Research Centre, spoke at a conference with minors prosecutor and High Court judges at Halkida city Hall in February 2019. Following its flagship campaign to reform child protection and develop family and community based care for children in alternative care under the Opening Doors [...]

Children infected by COVID-19 are likely to only have mild symptoms. Nonetheless this crisis is having, and will continue to have, an enormous impact on their lives. The challenges of staying home are compounded for children living in poor housing, and for those for whom school lunches were the only hot meal a day. Many families will struggle to provide a home learning environment. We are also particularly concerned for [...]

Mapping institutional care for children and children with disabilities in Greece during 2014 MAPPING-INSTITUTIONAL-CARE-IN-GREECE-2014-FINAL

There are no relevant policies in place to transform the outdated child care and child protection system in Greece where private interests prevail over the best interests of children. This was one of the conclusions of the 2nd International Conference “Experiences from the adoption triad and how to support children in need with alternative solutions”. The event took place on 25-26 May 2017 in Marathon, Attica, Greece. The conference was [...]