85. Far more detailed rules were enacted concerning the placement of children in foster homes and the legal status of children in foster homes, the foster parents and the natural parents.

It has thus developed a foster family programme for children for whom no family member can be traced.

In some areas, UNHCR and partner agency staff were unable to identify families fostering refugee children, either because foster families feared reprisals or wished to keep the children.

Foster families are seemingly more reluctant to take responsibility for boys than for girls.

As girls are kept at home more often than boys, a foster home might also have a larger impact on their lives.

The Ministry intervenes to provide foster families and social institutions for children without shelter and to monitor juvenile care centres.

Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages.

If the families of unaccompanied minors could not be found, UNHCR, together with implementing partners, placed the children with foster families.

The state's family benefits are childbirth allowance, child allowance, child care allowance, single parent's child allowance, conscript's child allowance, school allowance, foster care allowance, start in independent life allowance, allowance for families with three or more children and families raising triplets, and adoption allowance.

217. The Committee recommends that provision be made for offering social assistance to families to help them with their child rearing responsibilities as laid down in article 18 of the Convention as a means of reducing institutionalization of children.

Nourishment level of household

(b) Develop effective strategies to prevent the abandonment of children, which include early identification of families and children at risk and the possibility for social workers to intervene and help families directly

Children who, for whatever reason, are separated from their mothers may be placed in voluntary care with foster parents in one of the two residential care facilities in the Cayman Islands.

General assistance to families with children includes also the following assistance additional payment to the family state benefit in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the CM granting a benefit to the guardian for the upbringing of the child and for the performance of guardian's duties institutional care, adoption, guardianship, foster families granting municipal the social assistance benefits to poor families.

Chapter V, Research , pp. 43 51, in Social Measures regarding the Placing of Children in Community Homes or Foster Families, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1973

Such a solution is only considered as an alternative means of care for the child if he or she cannot be placed in a foster or an adoptive family or cannot in any suitable manner be cared for in the child s country of origin

Again, aid staff had difficulty in locating and monitoring these children, especially those in foster families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The union has initiated two major legislation amendments, one regarding the need to broaden the definition of family member in the Penal Law, to include family members such as foster family members and cousins.

Most were left with relatives and a few with neighbours, but 43 had simply been left on their own.

This happened much more often in households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (70.1 per cent), in households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (69.5 per cent) and in families of mothers raising children (62.6 per cent).

Every third household had one pensioner (32.5 per cent) and in 17.4 per cent of households there were two pensioners.

Among 3,787 households taking part in the survey, 45.7 per cent were workers apos households and 31.7 per cent pensioners apos households.

45. In addition, these measures continue to constitute discriminatory treatment of Cuban emigrants residing in the United States, and strengthen the control mechanisms that impede family reunification, freedom of travel and the sending of family assistance.

14 children referred to foster care

The households who evaluated their economic situation as bad were most often those with unemployed family members and without any pensioners (51.6 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (47.8 per cent) and mothers raising children (45.3 per cent).

Registration, family relations and adoption

Registration, family relations and adoption

330. The allowances for families bringing up disabled children are linked to the family allowances.

The households evaluating their nourishment as below the average level were those maintained on unearned income other than pensions (33.6 per cent), households with unemployed members (32.9 per cent), mothers raising children (30.9 per cent) and married couples raising four or more children (26.2 per cent).

332. Survivor apos s pensions are allocated in the case of the death of the family breadwinner.

Those reporting less consumption were households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (50.5 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (47.0 per cent) and mothers raising children (33.8 per cent).

Such sandwiches are least often taken by children from households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (71.4 per cent), from households of pensioners (75.2 per cent) and from households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (75.6 per cent). Changes in eating habits

(c) Provide adequate training to judges, caregivers and other professionals.

Specific focus was placed on disadvantaged groups orphans were taken care of under a foster programme, for instance, and received a monthly allowance, as did families in need and widowed women.

Those in group homes or foster care with other Sudanese fared better psychologically, as they could more easily share their experiences.

Families have low incomes and this leads them to have an imbalanced diet.

3. Fosterage by another person or by a family

The Department of Social Services provides free school uniforms and other clothing to children in foster care or in the children s homes as well as to other children whose families are financially unable to provide adequate clothing for them.

The remaining households examined were farmers apos households (7.9 per cent), farmworkers apos households (6.5 per cent), households of self employed or professional persons (4.7 per cent) and households maintained on unearned income, other than pensions (3.5 per cent).

197. Family work is not limited to child raising and housekeeping.

Family allowances a (without pensioners)

The households which evaluated the level of satisfaction of their food requirements as worse than in an average household were mainly households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (24.2 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (22.4 per cent), and mothers raising children (19.4 per cent).

In cases where reunification or foster care is not considered possible or suitable, other medium and long term options, such as group homes or supervised living arrangements, are needed.

Those that reported having definitely experienced shortage of food were mainly households with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (13.7 per cent), and households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (11.9 per cent).

(v) Improving nutrition education at the community and home level.