Quality in the Best Interests of the Child

Together, SOS Children's Villages, IFCO and FICE, developed a set of quality standards for out-of-home child and youth care in Europe in order to improve the care situation for hundreds of thousands of concerned young people. The Quality4Children Standards were developed through a participatory approach: Storytelling - The standards’ principal strength lies in the use of this method. More than 500 people (332 of them told the stories on which the standards are based) with experience in out-of-home child contributed to the development of the Q4C Standards.

The Q4C Standards were launched at the European Parliament . Since then, progress has been made in many European countries.

The Council of Europe and Quality4Children published a booklet on the rights of children and youth in care. More...

26 language versions and the Child-friendly version of the Q4C Standards (in German) are now available! Click here to download them.

Take a look to the documents of the Q4C Toolkit

List of all Q4C contact persons in Europe

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