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Identification

1. Name of the project/practice

2. Name of submitting person/organisation/practitioner

3. Role of the submitting person/organisation/practitioner in the good practice

4. Type of organisations implementing the practice

Academia/University

National authority

Regional authority

Local authority

Non-governmental organisation

International organisation

Private organisation

Private person

Other type of organisation

4.1. Please specify type of organisation if different than the options above

5. Description of the lead organisation

6. Name and description of partner organisations

Scope and activities

7. Type of activity

Capacity-building and training of duty-bearers (national, regional, local authorities, others involved in delivery of services) to respect rights

Services delivered directly to children (including on access to their rights) (e.g. child-sensitive information, support services, clinics (mobile or other), reception, transnational cooperation, etc.

Promoting rights-based responses and actions (e.g. advocacy, working with communities, implementing standards)

Community engagement (e.g. local volunteers or outreach, inclusion, neighborhood initiatives)

Other type of activity

7.1. Please describe other type of activity (if the type of activity is not listed above)

8. Sector

Immediate protection needs on arrival / humanitarian relief (e.g. individual needs assessment)

Identification and registration (e.g. child-friendly biometric enrollment, measures to prevent and to respond to unaccompanied children going missing, age assessment procedures)

Reception: accommodation (e.g. reception related measures to promote and respond to children going missing, foster care, semi-independent living, housing for families, different forms of alternative care for unaccompanied children)

Reception: access to services (educational support, access to health care, assistance to newborns or toddlers, psychosocial support, leisure, integration-related measures)

Access to status determination procedures/procedural safeguards (guardianship services, multidisciplinary age assessment, family reunification/unity, family-tracing, prioritisation of children’s status determination procedures (urgency principle), legal assistance, child-sensitive information)

Prevention of deprivation of liberty (General Comment No 23 UNCRC) / non-custodial solutions

Durable solutions (best interests determination, integration, return, resettlement or reunification with family in a third country)

Other sector

8.1. Please describe other sector (if the sector is not listed above)

9. Target group of children in migration

All children

Unaccompanied or separated children

Children in families

Children with disabilities

LGBTQI children

Children seeking international protection

Teenagers close to adulthood

Child victims of trafficking

Child victims of violence

Child victims of sexual violence

Other target group of children in migration

9.1. Other target group of children in migration (if the target group is not listed above)

10. Specific target of the practice

Boys

Girls

All children

11. Target group based on age

0-18 years

0-3 years

4-6 years

7-12 years

13-18 years

Other age group

11.1. Please specify the age group

12. Keywords to describe the good practice

13. Time frame

13.1. Start date of activity

Date

13.2. End date of activity

Date

14. Geographical scope

14.1. Other geographical scope

15. Region, municipality or locality concerned

16. General description of activities

UNICEF, in partnership with the Greek NGO METAdrasi, launched the first ever pilot Supported Independent Living care model in Greece in January 2018. The pilot initiative expanded to six SIL apartments in Athens and Thessaloniki in its first year, accommodating a total of 24 UASC in total during 2018.
The SIL model places up to four children in apartments, with each child provided with individual support by a multi-disciplinary team (a social worker, carer and legal representative), who facilitate their access to services and work with them to build independent living skills. Each child has access to 24/7 emergency support and is assisted with a personal action plan. Each multi-disciplinary team can support up to 24 UASC across six SIL apartments.
UNICEF also supported the National Centre for Social Solidarity (EKKA) to develop a data strategy and an analysis framework, as well as seconding several staff to EKKA to help manage the overloaded referral system. Additionally, under the Supreme Court Public Prosecutor’s guidance, UNICEF and partners developed a set of standard operating procedures and frameworks to guide the SIL pilot, drawing from good practices from other EU countries, and adapting them to the Greek context. UNICEF and partners then organized a national roundtable on SIL in Greece, bringing together public prosecutors, IGOs and NGOs, as well as professionals from other EU countries, to share experiences with this model of care, and discuss roll out in Greece.

17. Objectives of the activities

18. Results

19. Challenges

Before launching the SIL pilot in Athens, UNICEF and partners had to address two key obstacles to such placements.

The first obstacle related to ensuring stakeholders had an accurate picture of the situation of UASC in Greece, including an analysis of its scale, scope, trends, and of the capacity of the country’s protection system to respond. The existing system for referral and placement, which resulted in fragmented information on the location and number of UASC in Greece and their vulnerability, as well as the absence of a national strategy for these children, led to challenges in planning an effective response.

The second obstacle related to the lack of a procedural framework to regulate SIL and the related challenge of securing the approval of stakeholders. These included, in particular, Public Prosecutors acting by law as temporary guardians for UASC, who needed to agree to the placement of UASC in pilot SIL apartments, which had been unknown and untested in Greece before this project.

20. Lessons learned

Additional Information

21. Funding

Funded by national authorities

Funded by the organisation in charge of the implementation

Funded by regional authorities

Funded by local authorities

Funded by private donor or charity

Other funding

21.1. Please specify other funding:

22. Funded by EU Programme

23. Approximate costs per year

24. Currency

25. Costs per objective or per work package

26. Other relevant information on budget and costs

27. Formal evaluation

28. Child safeguarding policy

29. Child safeguarding policy link

30. Child safeguarding policy document

31. Link to good practice / organisations' website

32. Relevant documents for good practice/organisation

33. Is there any extra information you want to provide not already covered in the replies to the questions above?

Contact Information

34. You can add up to five contacts

34.1.1. Name

34.1.2. Phone

34.1.3. Email

34.2.1. Name

34.2.2. Phone

34.2.3. Email

34.3.1. Name

34.3.2. Phone

34.3.3. Email

34.4.1. Name

34.4.2. Phone

34.4.3. Email

34.5.1. Name

34.5.2. Phone

34.5.3. Email

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