Description
In 2014, the European Commission and FRA published a Handbook on Guardianship for children deprived of parental care as required by the European Action Plan to combat trafficking. The Handbook is available in 23 EU languages and has been a reference guide for many actors in the field of migration and asylum since. In 2015, the FRA also published a report on guardianship systems, which provides an overview of the different legal and organisational perspectives in EU Member States.
Guardianship systems of several EU Member States have undergone reforms, with legal or policy implications. The aim of this report (concluded in March 2021) was to update the 2015 report on guardianship systems in order to provide an overview of the guardianship systems as of 2020. The report informed the FRA report Guardianship systems for unaccompanied children in the European Union: developments since 2014.
