| Title | Options Paper 1: Options for governments on care arrangements and alternatives to detention for children and families (first published 2015, revised version 2019) |
| Publisher | UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
| Publication Date | 2019 |
| Country | Argentina | Belgium | Canada | China | Costa Rica | Finland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Indonesia | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Kenya | Mexico | Nicaragua | Netherlands | Philippines | Uruguay | United States of America | Yemen |
| Topics | Children's rights | Children-at-risk | Immigration Detention | Unaccompanied / Separated children |
| Other Languages / Attachments | Georgian | Indonesian | Turkish |
| Related Document(s) | Beyond Detention: A Global Strategy to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seeker and refugees, 2014-2019 |
| Cite as | UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Options Paper 1: Options for governments on care arrangements and alternatives to detention for children and families (first published 2015, revised version 2019), 2019, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5523e8d94.html [accessed 23 April 2022] |
| Comments | Second Revision of the document, published in 2019. For options for governments on open reception and alternatives to detention, see Options Paper 2, UNHCR 2015. |