Kindvriendelijke versie van de UN Guidelines gemaakt door RELAF en UNICEF nu in het engels.

In Latijns Amerika hebben het Latijns Amerikaanse Netwerk voor Pleegzorg en Family-based Care (RELAF) en UNICEF de Kindvriendelijke versie van de UN Guidelines ontwikkeld.

Samen met kinderen uit Argentinië, Paraguay en Uruguay is nagedacht over de Guidelines en zijn de voor kinderen belangrijke artikelen herschreven en geïllustreerd tot een kindvriendelijke versie, die ook voor volwassenen veel duidelijker is dan de moeilijke VN taal versie.
Er is ook een versie die geschreven is in normaal spaans/ engels voor praktijkmensen.

De Kindvriendelijke versie in het spaans is te downloaden van de website van RELAF http://www.relaf.org/index_engl.html en www.relaf.org voor de spaanstalige versie.

Wij hebben op onze website de engelstalige versie die u kunt downloaden en doorsturen naar uw contacten.

Over de implementatie schreef Relaf onderstaande tekst:
Since April this year RELAF has been engaged in many activities for the effective implementation of the Guidelines on Alternative Care and the promotion of de-institutionalization and the development of family- based alternative care.
After the presentation of the friendly versions of the Guidelines on Alternative Care for the personnel of public and private institutions and for children (elaborated with the support of UNICEF Tacro) during the Quality for Care Conference in Prague, workshops have been carried out in different Latin American entities to apply them. The versions are available in Spanish and Portuguese, and the English version has also been launched. (The workshops carried out with children can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/user/AcogimientoFamiliar?feature=mhee). Those workshops were also carried out with members of international bodies, experts and governmental and non-governmental organization of almost all the Latin American countries (many of them have replicated or will replicate the experience in their countries) during the Sub-Regional Consultations for the elaboration of the Study of the Situation of Institutionalized Childhood in the Americas of UNICEF and the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. RELAF took part actively in the production of this document, among other writing two reports on violation of the Human Rights of children deprived of parental care: “Institutionalized childhood and adolescence: making serious Human Rights violations visible” and “Migrant children and adolescents: framework and situation for the fulfillment of their Human Rights”.  It is worthwhile to highlight that all our materials are available in English at