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This guidance from the UK Department for Education outlines actions to be taken by educational providers - working together with other partners, where relevant, such as local authorities - to meet the needs of vulnerable children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elsa Laurin, the Senior Child Protection Officer for the East and Horn of Africa from UNHCR, tells Hani Mansourian how they and their partner organisations re-prioritised child protection cases in response to the changing situation of shut borders in eastern Africa as the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 loomed.

Save the Children has developed these key messages, on Parenting without Violence, which can be adapted to a particular context. This resource was produced as part of the child protection COVID-19 response to protect children in their homes.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change shines the light on a new pilot program in a county of the U.S. state of California that will provide former foster youth, ages 21 to 24, with $1,000 monthly payments for up to a year.

This article argues that Greece's use of closed-type institutions for child protection is violation of children’s rights and a practice of secondary victimization, stigmatization and exclusion of children living in these institutions.

This study used empirical data from health and social care professionals and cluster analysis to identify “barriers to” and “recommendations for” providing care and support to children living as AIDS orphans in township communities in Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa.

This article presents a multi-site evaluation of a group delivery of the eight-week Circle of Security-Parent DVD program (COS-P) program to foster carers of 6-12 year-old children in an urban community as facilitated by community-based providers from a specialist child and youth mental health services.

This paper examines the frequency with which transition-age foster youth receive asset building services and whether the youth who receive services experience improved outcomes compared to those who do not.

This guidance aims at supporting child protection actors working with communities to keep children safe to adapt their programming to the contagious environment of COVID-19.

“Protected!” is the official podcast of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator, hosts this frank dialogue on all aspects of child protection and COVID-19 with practitioners, innovators and policy makers in the sector.