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This report reflects on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on children. It compiles information gathered from 25 countries across Europe, and provides recommendations for improving public policies in the short and long-term to support better outcomes for children and families, including children in alternative care or at risk of separation.
Family Matters reports focus on what governments are doing to turn the tide on over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care and the outcomes for children. They also highlight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led solutions and call on governments to support and invest in the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to lead on child wellbeing, development and safety responses for our children.
This research aimed to provide a systematic review of the evidence on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on youth mental health.
This article examines the case for greater recognition of the children’s workforce in out-of-home care (OHC), and situates the concept of ‘expertise’ in the rise of recognition of children’s status as competent social actors, as well as in professionalisation debates.
According to this article from Kaieteur News, a newly installed Adoption Board, which falls under the purview of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in Guyana, has begun processing adoption cases that were left unattended for a few years.
This paper examines the ways in which anti-oppression and anti-racism perspectives can be included as an aspect of Child and Youth Care (CYC) thought and practice, with particular relevance to service provision for African Canadian families.
The main objective of this consultancy is to provide technical guidance to the design, implementation, and analysis of the national study on violence against children that aims at assessing the magnitude, incidence, causes and consequences of various types of violence against children (qualitative and quantitative).
This article from BBC News tells the story of "vulnerable women [who] are being preyed on in Nairobi to feed a thriving black market for babies."
The UBS Optimus Foundation will award one or more grant prizes of up to USD 1m to organization(s) that have demonstrated or are seeking to demonstrate rigorous evidence of achievement of outcomes in several areas - including prevention of children being separated from families due to reasons such as poverty, violence, abuse or lack of access to basic health and education - through an intervention implemented in the context of COVID-19.