This blog post from Strengthening Families For Abandoned Children (SFAC) features a decision map and accompanying guide to making decisions about where and how to place a child during a large-scale emergency, like the COVID-19 pandemic.

This tool is meant to help practitioners stay grounded in family strengths as a way to overcome challenges and help families thrive even when the current COVID-19 crisis is weighing heavily on practitioners' and families' minds.

This rapid assessment was conducted with 12,100 respondents across 13 countries, aimed at understanding the needs and gaps in assuring assistance for affected children and communities during the COVID-19 crisis.

This brief explores kinship care and how this critical resource is at risk now and in the future.

This  briefing explores the importance of self-care for parents and carers, whilst outlining some ‘top-tips’ and helpful resources that can be accessed online. 

To aid understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on girls and young women, as well as talking to girls in lockdown, Plan International has re-examined four previous studies of crises to try and get a clearer picture of the insecurity and vulnerability facing girls now.

This joint statement from the EU, GRULAC and the Group of Friends of Children and the SDGs expresses support for the appeal by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for countries to prioritize children’s education, food, health and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this webinar, Zeinab and the Case Management Task Force hosts a discussion on adapting child protection case management in the context of COVID-19.

This practice briefing aims to support carers and practitioners to talk and listen to children and young people in alternative care about Covid-19

El programa de Educación del Diálogo Interamericano, Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) y la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de UNICEF convocan un seminario virtual para reflexionar sobre cómo la emergencia ha afectado a la primera infancia y qué respuestas están organizando los gobiernos para responder a la cambiante situación y asegurar que los objetivos de desarrollo infantil continúan recibiendo la atención necesaria.