Acknowledgments and Licensing

Acknowledgments

The research, collaboration and consultation for this project involved many partners and contributors, and sincere gratitude goes to all who helped to bring this complex work to fruition:

• The Inter-Agency Steering Group which guided the development of the tool was chaired by Florence Martin (Better Care Network) and Rebecca Smith (Save the Children). Members of the Group were Mia Dambach (International Social Services), Amanda Griffith (Family For Every Child), Peter Gross (UNICEF), Maria Herczog (Eurochild and former member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child), Alan Kikuchi-White (SOS Children’s Villages International), Delia Pop (Hope and Homes for Children), and Mara Tissera Luna (RELAF).
• The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) who were commissioned to develop and write Tracking Progress: Susan Elsley, Jennifer Davidson, Malcolm Hill, Ian Milligan and Nigel Cantwell.
• The Oak Foundation who funded and supported this project throughout its development.
• The interviewees who contributed to the comprehensive consultation on the project.
• We are also very grateful to the numerous individuals who gave their time and expertise to provide feedback through the e-consultation.
• The field test leads in Rwanda and Romania (Hope and Homes for Children) and Paraguay (RELAF), and all the participants whose input and insights were crucial to refine the tool.
• The team at Encuesta, in particular Gabriel Jenik, who led the development of this web based tool; Alini Asish who assisted in determining its requirements; Sarah Johnson and Katerina Canyon at Better Care Network, and Katie Rice at Save the Children who supported the painstaking review and finalization process.

Licensing

The overall LimeSurvey software package is Copyright © 2003 onwards by Carsten Schmitz with portions contributed/copyrighted by many others (see COPYRIGHT.PHP in the downloaded package and the source code itself) and all of it is provided under the terms of the GPL. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version;

The ‘TRACKING PROGRESS: Measuring the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children’ measuring tool is Copyright © 2015 onwards by the Better Care Network, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) at the University of Strathclyde, and The Save the Children Fund, and is provided to all under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Any part of this measuring tool may be freely reproduced with the appropriate acknowledgement © Better Care Network; Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) at the University of Strathclyde; and Save the Children 2016.

Published by: Better Care Network and Save the Children on behalf of the Inter-Agency Steering Group. The material in this measuring tool has been funded by the Oak Foundation. The contents do not necessarily reflect the policies or the views of the Oak Foundation. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this measuring tool do not imply on the part of the commissioners or authors the expression of any opinion whatsoever concerning the legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities or the delimitation of its frontiers. The only authorised translations are those approved by the Interagency Steering Committee

Authors: Susan Elsley, Jennifer Davidson, Malcolm Hill, Ian Milligan and Nigel Cantwell.

Suggested citation for the tool:

Better Care Network, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS), Eurochild, Family for Every Child, Hope and Homes for Children, International Social Service (ISS), RELAF, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International, and UNICEF. (2017). Tracking Progress: Measuring the implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children’. Better Care Network and Save the Children.

The tool can be accessed at www.trackingprogressinitiative.org

The Tracking Progress tool is itself a work in progress and we welcome feedback and suggestions for improving it and ensuring it addresses the diverse needs of those working to strengthen children’s care and implement the Guidelines. Please send suggestions and recommendations to the Steering Group by completing the Contact Form here. You can also use this contact form for questions relating to IT and technical issues.

The Tracking Progress Initiative was possible thanks to the support of Oak Foundation.