One In Four Children Living In Grandfamilies Are African American And African Americans Face Heightened Challenges Including Higher Rates Of Infection And Death From COVID-19
This article calls attention to Generations United's new tool kit, which "provides essential information to help organizations better serve African American grandfamilies during [the COVID-19 crisis] and into the future."
Children and young people in care across South East Asia ask for increased support in the wake of COVID-19
"Child representatives and care leavers from South East Asia have called for increased support for continuing education, psychosocial care, finding jobs and affordable housing in the wake of COVID-19," according to this news article from SOS Children's Villages.
Pandemic of abuse
"Stay-at-home and lockdown measures have helped to contain the greatest public-health threat the world has seen in decades," says this article from the Bangkok Post. "But as Covid-19 receded in many countries, a new public-health crisis was emerging behind closed doors, with increased domestic violence against women and children."
'Family Separation 2.0.' Parents in ICE Detention Have To Decide Whether to Keep Their Children or Release Them To Sponsors
"As COVID-19 cases continue to increase across [the U.S.], court orders from two different lawsuits have created a situation that lawyers and advocates are calling another form of family separation," says this article from Time. "Now, parents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention must decide whether or not to keep their children with them in custody, or to release them out to sponsors."
New Survey Finds Increases in Child Protection Concerns and Unaccompanied Children in Conflict-Affected Countries
"A new survey issued by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to staff working on the front lines of child protection services within 17 countries impacted by conflict or crisis finds that child protection concerns have increased among 55% of respondents," says this press release from IRC.
'All my safety nets went overnight': how Covid-19 is isolating student care-leavers
This article from the Guardian explores the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on students in the UK who have been in care.
Coronavirus And Child Protection Issues In Ghana
This article from Modern Ghana calls attention to child protection concerns in Ghana amidst the Coronavirus crisis in the country.
The Irish Times view on vulnerable children: the toll of the pandemic
"The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions have had a particularly heavy impact on vulnerable and marginalised children, none more so than those who require the protection of the State through the child care courts," says the Irish Times in this opinion piece.
Relatives of children in State care can't see them during lockdown
This article describes some of the findings from a new report on childcare law matters in Ireland, which has revealed many of the impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on families of children in state care.
Doctors And Activists Call For ICE To Release Families In Detention, Citing COVID-19 Concerns
A federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release children from detention facilities by July 17, and doctors and activities are calling for the release of their parents and other asylum seekers as well due to the risk of COVID-19 spread, according to this article from Texas Public Radio.