This issue brief discusses the importance of childcare for disaster recovery and provides policy recommendations on how to protect and restore community childcare infrastructure in disasters.

Guidance and preconditions on use of Best Interests Determination for unaccompanied and separated children

Comprehensive evaluation of national responses and level of care standards for children without parental care in Indonesia.

Practical guidance on how to care for young children separated from their families in emergencies. Includes discussions of best practices in family tracing, promoting child development, and family reunification. Also provides strategies for the prevention of family separation.

Guidance on how to care for the children under five who are separated from their families in emergencies. Includes chapters on tracing, registering, verification, reunification, and the provision of care to meet developmental needs.

A short paper on the importance of child care provision as a critical service in helping local communities recover post disaster. It gives 4 policy recommendations for protecting and restoring child care infrastructure.

Provides analysis of the historical background and current structure of El Salvador's conditional cash transfer programme with attention to family integration

Guidelines for a multi-sectoral response to the most urgent mental health and psychosocial issues in emergency situations.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child held a day of general discussion on 16 September on “Children without parental care”.  

Save the Children's "First Resort" series focuses on the needs and rights of children who, for a wide variety of reasons, are lacking adequate parental care. This third paper in the First Resort series presents practical examples of the range of options available to policy-makers, practitioners and others with responsibilities for the care and protection of children without adequate parental care.