Good practices for the prevention of abandonment and care of abandoned children

In recent years, in the Republic of Moldova, the field of child and family rights protection has registered important progress: the creation of the community social assistance service; development of services for children in difficulty, development of specialized services, etc. Despite these relevant achievements, our country continues to face the problem of child abandonment. The development and maintenance of specialized services for the prevention of abandonment and those addressed to abandoned children is a current field of research, because an effective child protection system must be able to identify, evaluate, support and report any situation of risk for the child, as well as to respond to the changing environment in the context that generates new risks during the development of society. An important role in the development and maintenance of specialized social services aimed at abandoned children is also played by the processes of preventing and combating the phenomenon of abandonment, which affects both the child, the family and society.The problem of the investigation: the insufficiency of abandonment prevention services to ensure the complex assistance of abandoned children, but also the measures to prevent child abandonment. The object of the research: specialized services for the prevention of abandonment and those addressed to abandoned children, based on the good practice of the Temporary Fostering Service for children at risk. The purpose of the research: to capitalize on the good practices of prevention of abandonment and those addressed to abandoned children.