Nigeria

This conference seeks to explore how such diverse perspectives can inform a new ethics of adoption and the care of orphaned or abandoned children in Muslim communities.

This brief from the Zimbabwe Education Cluster presents details on the humanitarian needs and response in Zimbabwe due to the COVID-19 crisis, including the acute needs of orphans and vulnerable children, children with disabilities, and others.

This webinar focuses on Community-Level Approaches to Child Protection, which replaces the old standard Community-Based Mechanisms.

The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) Working Group of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is launching a new webinar series to introduce the new standards in the 2019 edition of the CPMS.

Employing a systematic scoping methodology, this review examined the scope and breadth of literature focusing on children and young people living in residential care in Australia who have experienced sexual exploitation.

This article from the Atlantic explores the impacts of school shutdowns, social distancing, and lockdowns on children during the COVID-19 pandemic and how supportive caregivers can mitigate the harms of social isolation.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change discusses how, in the United States, "states and counties that have come to rely on interdisciplinary legal representation – a model that includes social workers and peer advocates working alongside attorneys to fight for parents and children – have overcome the new barriers imposed by the pandemic to help families reunify."

This online event will launch the Lancet Group Commission on the institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children, which advocates global reform of the care of separated children through the progressive replacement of institutional provision with safe and nurturing family-based care.

This report provides key recommendations from three roundtable discussions about how to support permanency with kin, relational permanency, and successful older youth adoption.

Cracks in the System is a new report from Lumos that is the first of its kind to systematically explore the links between institutional care and child trafficking in Europe.