Lumos? mission is to end the institutionalisation of children worldwide by 2050. Our vision is a world in which all children have the opportunity to grow up and thrive in a safe and caring family or, where there is no alternative, the specialist placements that meet their needs, respect their rights and ensure they can fulfil their potential. To truly eradicate poverty and foster equity, and to seriously put children at the heart of the global development agenda, Lumos has been calling for the new SDG agenda to include recognition of the role families and parents play in supporting children?s health, development, education, and protection.

From the start of the post-2015 process, Lumos has closely followed the discussions and has contributed to various Beyond 2015 consultations, including on inequality, disability and education. Earlier this year, the organisation ran a public campaign calling for the inclusion of families ? and children living without them ? into the SDG agenda. We have met with global leaders to raise Lumos? concern that children in institutions and otherwise outside family care were at risk of being left behind in the post-2015 agenda.

Lumos welcomes that the final outcome document includes strong commitments to promote the welfare of children and protect them from violence. We also welcome language recognising the importance of investing in children and ensuring a nurturing environment, including families, to ensure that children fully realise their rights and capabilities.

Lumos continues to work in collaboration with other child focused agencies to explore how best to ensure that SDG indicators truly leave no one behind, including children living outside of family care. This informal coalition will offer recommendations to the UN Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) on specific indicators required to ensure the post-2015 agenda will achieve the best possible outcomes for children.

Longer-term, Lumos intends to work with governments of the countries in which we operate to ensure meaningful implementation of the SDGs in relation to commitments made to the most vulnerable children.
Initially focusing on Europe, Lumos established a presence in Moldova, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria to support the countries in its transition from institutional to community-based care. More recently, Lumos has also started to work in the Ukraine and Greece. Lumos is also moving into the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Some of our recent (and ongoing) activities include:

? EU level advocacy which has resulted in the EU adopting a regulation which stipulates that EU funds which are spend within the EU should be used for the ??transition from institutional to community-based services? and prohibiting the use of funds for maintenance, renovation or construction of residential institutional settings. Currently, Lumos is working to ensure that the spirit of this regulation is adopted across all funding streams (i.e. including funding spend outside of the EU) of the European Union.
? Managing the secretariat of the UNICEF Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities (GPCWD) Task Force on Child Protection.
? Publishing a report highlighting practices of international donor funding being invested in (de)institutionalisation. The report was launched at a high level conference in London.
? Working in close collaboration with the Moldovan government supporting completion of deinstitutionalisation programme.
? Building a Special Education Unit (SEU) in Moldova enabling children with severe and complex physical and learning disabilities to attend school, for the first time in their lives. The SEU is attached to a mainstream school, which will ensure that the children will be educated alongside all other children, and will have the opportunity to get the know them and play with them.
? Developing and delivering programmes in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine to transform outdated systems of institutional care to family-based care setting in the community.
? Promoting child and youth participation in national and international decision making. Lumos runs child participation groups in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Moldova and Serbia.
? Organising a training and high-level conference to promote deinstitutionalisation in Haiti in collaboration with the Haitian government and USAID.
Yes - Lumos2014accounts.pdf Member of the Lumos Board of Trustees :
? Rita Dattani ? British
? Sandy Loder ? British
? Rachel Wilson ? British
? Nicholas Crichton ? British
? Neil Blair ? British (chair)
? Mark Smith ? British
? Lucy Smith ? British
? Danny Cohen ? British Lumos-ArticlesofAssoc.pdf