This section includes resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
News on COVID-19 and Children's Care
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This brief demonstrates the power of Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone (DULCE) - a universal, evidence-based pediatric care innovation that addresses the social determinants of health and supports early relational health for families with infants from birth to six months - in addressing the critical concrete needs of families with newborns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In attempts to delineate the future impacts on today's children, this paper analyses the COVID-19 crisis as a dynamic phenomenon that shapes children's lives well into adulthood, with age and gender considered key influencing factors. It examines the impacts from previous crises and the available data to build prudent assumptions about the present situation and outlines four scenarios which provide opportunities to identify potential levers for positive change.
This research explores the stress children in World Vision programmes in the Middle East and Eastern Europe region are under due to COVID-19.
A survey was administered to develop a better understanding of the experiences of kinship care households in the UK as a result of the Coronavirus crisis, and what urgent steps could be taken by Government, local authorities and other agencies to help. This supplementary report provides an in-depth analysis of the kinship carers in Scotland and provides the legal context to influence national and local kinship care policies, practices and services of local authorities and other public agencies.
This brief discusses how the infrastructure and partnerships EC-LINC communities have developed over years of building their early childhood systems have allowed them to address the needs confronting families with young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This briefing paper aims to highlight some of the key issues and some of the solutions that have been identified through regular meetings of the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant (SCLC) Alliance during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing together learning from their own work and extensive networks with partners to offer a number of recommendations, and to prioritise steps to improve the lives of care leavers.
This report presents findings from a survey conducted across the Europe and Central Asia Region which aimed to enhance understanding of the use of digital platforms for child protection.
This brief summarizes the response and value of the Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone (DULCE) approach during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the essential elements of the model that support its strength, and lessons learned.
This report calls on world leaders to come together and agree a global package to help low income countries and ensure the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis receive at least some support.
This report examines the two-sided dilemma for Venezuelan children during the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) the dire economic situation they faced prior to the declaration of the Coronavirus pandemic and 2) the exacerbating factors that have deepened their vulnerability since the pandemic began.