OOC post.
Grey County wrote:Noting that not all parents can provide the necessary support that young children and youth need,
Given other resolutions that classify all minors as children, I don't really see any reason to separate children and... what are youths, here? Teenagers? You could just use "minors" instead.
Acknowledging having a youth stay with their biological parents is not always an option and thus the foster care system is a necessary thing that provides the support and resources that young children and youth need,
I get what you mean, here, but I think you really should stop advertizing the foster system and pick a side. Like, given this is civil rights, presumably you're on the kids' side here? Try rewriting the preamble to emphasize from the children's wellbeing's side why they need to sometimes be taken from their parents, temporarily or not, and why children's wellbeing matters on the national scale. I know, they're kinda obvious, but the preamble is for making the obvious clear to all, when you're talking about people's rights.
Acknowledging that the foster care system is a necessary thing that provides the support and resources that young children and youth need,
Unnecessary repetition between this and the previous one. Also, the foster system is usually augmenting other social services and usually the hope is to either return the children to their parents or get them adopted. You might want to mention it, instead of creating this thing that takes children from their parents without anything existing outside of it. You want to make this thing part of the whole system, not a disjointed thing outside of all other social services. (There is a resolution about adoptions, check it out.)
Noting that in some scenarios the system can inadvertently or maliciously be taken advantage of and cause damage to those in it,
This is a case of "obviously, but you don't want to say it as a fact". You instead want to say something to the tune of wanting to prevent situations where the children might be rescued from one bad living situation just to end up in another.
Certain that there is a need for international regulations and restrictions to protect the youth and young children that so desperately need the support of the system,
I'd leave this out entirely. If you want to make the internationality of this whole thing obvious, just saying it's your opinion, is not going to cut the mustard. Maybe instead go for a platitude like "Hoping to improve the lives of minors everywhere" or something like that. Leave out any desperation as well. Be reassuring that you've got the fix for any problems, here, rather than going "oh those poor little darlings, they need nanny state handholding to be saved".
[list=a][*]"Foster care" as a state-supported service which cares for youth and young children that are not able to be cared for by their biological parents in the hope that they can be adopted,
So you're NOT including kids only temporarily (hopefully) removed from parents so their parents can get their shit together and become better parents? Why?
"Foster parent" as a person who is charged with the care of fostered youth before they are adopted, and
KISS principle edit.
"Fostered youth" as a person under the age of legal competency who’s in the foster care system; and
Define terms before you use them. Make this come before "foster parent". Also, leave out the "and" at the end, as the list of definitions isn't continuing.
Put in place an approval process to determine whether the prospective foster parents can provide and care for a foster child that must include but is not limited to:
Instead of "put in place", I suggest "create (an approval process) if such does not already exist", because chances are most nations already have something like this.
i. A background check that looks at criminal past history to determine whether they are a safe and suitable option as a foster parent,
Don't limit it to criminality on purpose. Let nations decide what all they want to check to make sure the fosterers are suitable.
ii. A home inspection to determine whether they have a suitably safe home environment, and
Safety is important here, across the proposal.
iii. An interview of the prospective Foster Parents to get to know the prospective foster parents better,
Who gets to know them? And
random capitaliation there to fix.
Provide funding to the foster care system to ensure that prospective foster parents can receive training from the member states and help to prepare for a fostered youth to join their home.
You don't need to separately tell them to fund things, if you tell them to give the foster parents training to ensure they're doing a good job.
Provide additional training to those who wish to foster a child with a disability.
You need to choose if you're going to use "child/children" or "minor/minors" throughout the resolution. Pick one style and stick to it. And then fix the defintition to match.
Conduct post-placement inspections to make sure that the foster parents are providing suitable support, shelter, and resources for the fostered youth.
Use "suitable and adequate support and resources", because shelter is a resource, and mentioning it separately sounds like you're talking about rescued pets, not people. You might want to replace it with "services".
Establish additional legislation regarding inspections, and penalties for failure to provide the necessary services including but not limited to support, shelter, financial, a suitable education, and emotional resources for the fostered youth as well as any abuse of or mistreatment of fostered youth that must to deter abusers of the system and those who wish to do harm to fostered youth
Additions, also notice the comma added after "inspections", as that way it reads as "establish penalties for failure etc.".