Amendment No. 5 | Doc. 13730 | 21 April 2015

Social services in Europe: legislation and practice of the removal of children from their families in Council of Europe member States

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin - 2015 - Second part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 8.3, insert the following sub-paragraph:

"ensure that any (temporary) placement of a child in alternative care, where it has become necessary as a measure of last resort, be accompanied by measures aimed at the child’s subsequent reintegration into the family, including the facilitation of appropriate contact between the child and his or her family, and be subject to periodic review;"