By James Paul | Senior Grant Writer
With Vietnam only coming out of lockdown in April 2022, COVID severely impacted project progress and momentum. Despite this, the team managed to conduct a number of training and coaching sessions, both online and face-to-face when restrictions allowed, to staff at the two pilot social protection centres, government officials, and also child protection officers working within the community.
Having already delivered the full training programme to the family placement teams from the two pilot sites, coaching during 2021 and 2022 focused on the assessment of children for foster care and the assessment of foster carers, as they prepared to move the first children into families.
We are also pleased to report that the government has now confirmed that they will not approve new proposals that involve any form of institutional care for children, and are committed to pursuing family-based alternatives, with institutional care as a last resort!
The Vietnam team also used lockdown as a great opportunity for learning, developing and honing their expertise in family care, as well as conducting an evaluation of the pilot project to inform the project going forward.
I hope this gives you an insight into what has been achieved in the last year or so, as well as the challenges that the project has faced.
Stay connected for more updates. Thank you so much for your interest and support.
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