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Hope and Homes for Children

Acronym: HHC

General Information

Identification Code: 035163533684-92
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: Charity in England and Wales (No 1089490)
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 1/18/2019
Last Update: 10/2/2023
EP Accredited Number: 2

Mission & Interests

Goals: The mission of Hope and Homes for Children (HHC) is to be the catalyst for the global elimination of institutional care for children. Established in 1994, HHC has accumulated almost 25 years of international experience of reforming child protection systems through the process of de-institutionalization (DI). DI is the policy-driven process of reforming a country’s care system with a focus on transitioning from institutional to family and community based care, alongside the development of prevention and family support services. Ultimately, HHC aims to achieve systemic and lasting change by supporting the design of robust child protection systems, effective in preventing children’s separation from their families and providing quality alternative care.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Budget
  • Education and training
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Enlargement
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • External relations
  • Foreign affairs and security policy
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • Institutional affairs
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
  • Regional policy
  • Research and innovation
  • Youth
Levels of Interest:
  • european
  • national
  • global
  • sub-national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Hope and Homes for Children seeks to ensure that the legal and policy frameworks of the EU, including the financing instruments deployed internally and externally, prevent the separation of children from their families, promote the transition from institutional to family and community based care for children, and exclude investment in the maintenance, construction or refurbishment of institutional care facilities. Hope and Homes for Children actively follow all EU files that that may affect these priorities across the world, with a particular emphasis on the following: - The implementation and evaluation of key instruments of the 2021-2020 multi-annual financial framework, and new financial instruments for internal and external funding. This includes the European Commission proposals for the Common Provision Regulations (COM(2018) 375 final), European Regional Development Fund (COM(2018) 372 final), the European Social Fund Plus (COM(2018) 382 final), the Instrument for Pre-Accession III (COM(2018) 465 final) and the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (COM(2018) 460 final) - The Implementation of the EU Guidelines for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child (2017). - The EU strategy on the rights of the child (2021-24) and Child Guarantee - The EU Disability rights strategy for 2021-30 - The post-Cotonou process and resulting new agreement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States - The implementation of the new European Consensus for Development, particularly with regards to child rights. - The implementation of the new EU Roma strategic framework for equality, inclusion and participation for 2020 - 2030 - The implementation of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy for the period of 2020-2024 In the past year, HHC has provided input to key EU policies and legislation, including: - The Revision of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims 2022/0426(COD); - European Commission's recommendation on integrated child protection systems. - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Ukraine Facility 2023/0200(COD); - The European Parliament's Draft Report ‘’Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families’’ 2023/2066(INI); - The European Parliament’s report “The situation of children deprived of liberty in the world” 2022/2197(INI); - The European Parliament’s draft report ’’Children first - Beyond the Child Guarantee, two years after its adoption’’.
Communication Activities: Hope and Home for Children is a leading partner of the regional initiative Transform Alliance Africa (http://transformallianceafrica.org/). It brings together 14 partner organisations, representing seven countries, committed to a vision of an Africa free of institutional care, where all children belong and grow up in safe and loving families. Its mission is to be the catalyst to end institutional care of children in Africa by bringing together the partners’ collective voices, knowledge, practice and experience to strengthen families. Through the Alliance, Hope and Homes for Children provide support for partners to convene key stakeholders – including government agencies – in their own countries to negotiate buy-in to national deinstitutionalisation reform. Hope and Homes for Children was also a founding partner of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children (2013-2029; http://www.openingdoors.eu/). The campaign aimed to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure family and community-based alternative care for children. It achieves this by leveraging EU policy and funding and by building advocacy capacity in civil society. The campaign ran across 16 European countries. It contributed to significant breakthroughs across a number of EU countries – particularly, the inclusion of deinstitutionalisation as one of the priorities for the use of European Structural and Investment Funds. Hope and Homes for Children has also produced and contributed to a number of publications, namely: - Hope and Homes for Children with the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community based care (2019) "Checklist to ensure EU-funded measures contribute to independent living by developing and ensuring access to family-based and community-based services" https://deinstitutionalisationdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/eeg_checklist_onlineoffice.pdf) - Hope and Homes for Children (2017) “End the silence: The case for the elimination of institutional care of children” (http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/End-the-Silence-Policy-Paper-Final-Copy.pdf) - Joint Lumos-Hope and Homes for Children (2017) “Putting Child Protection and Family Care at the Heart of EU External Action”(http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Putting-Child-Protection-and-Family-Care-at-the-Heart-of-EU-External-Action_.pdf) - Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign (2018) “Maintain, Strengthen, Expand: How the EU can support the transition from institutional to family and community based care in the next multi-annual financial framework” (http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Putting-Child-Protection-and-Family-Care-at-the-Heart-of-EU-External-Action_.pdf) Finally, it is the beneficiary of an EU Funded project: - The European Commission-EU Delegation to Sudan awarded a project in Sudan titled “Development of a safe environment for single mothers, pregnant women and women who give birth outside wedlock and their children” (April 2018 - March 2021). The project is funded through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights with a budget of € 299.866, 93. It shall also contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Sudan in particular in terms of reduction of child mortality, prevention of abandonment and institutionalization of children born out of wedlock.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Children's rights

Head Office

Address: East Clyffe
Post Code: SP3 4LZ
City: Salisbury
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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EU Office

Address: Rond point Robert Schuman 6
Post Code: 1040
City: Bruxelles
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 3
Members F T E: 2.75

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: Hope and Homes for Children is indirectly involved in the European Expert Group on the transition from Institutional to Community based care (https://deinstitutionalisation.com/) through its partnership with Eurochild in the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign. In its day to day work, Hope and Homes for Children is closely cooperating with some other organisations, including through the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG).
Organisation Members: Hope and Homes for Children is an active member of various non-governmental platforms and coalitions, including Eurochild, Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), the Advisory Group of Better Care Network and Child Rights Connect. Hope and Homes for Children is also a member of Bond (https://www.bond.org.uk/) which gives it access to Concord (https://concordeurope.org/), and the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, which brings together over 20 European networks sharing a commitment to end child poverty and to promote child well-being across Europe. It is also a leading member of the regional initiative Transform Alliance Africa (http://transformallianceafrica.org/). In addition, Hope and Homes is part of Child Rights Connect, a global network of international and national non-governmental organisations committed to ensuring that all children fully enjoy their rights as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Furthermore, Hope and Homes has the special consultative status with ECOSOC United Nations. In the past year, Hope and Homes for Children joined the EU Policy Forum on Development, the Youth Dialogue Platform and the EU Network for Children’s Rights.