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
Webinars and Events on COVID-19 Response
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This leaflet offers mental health and psychosocial support messages developed by Hong Kong Red Cross for healthcare professionals and first responders during disease outbreak.
This statement from Jack P. Shonkoff of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University notes that the Center is "assembling easily accessible and actionable scientific knowledge for supporting the developmental needs of young children and their families in this current context."
This briefing from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions for meeting the needs of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webpage from ZERO TO THREE features resources offering tips for families including age-appropriate responses to common questions, a guide to self-care, and activities for young children experiencing social distancing.
CELCIS has gathered together important guidance, information and resources to help children and families in Scotland and the UK during the COVID-19 crisis.
This guidance was developed to support case workers to conduct virtual monitoring of children and families within their caseload throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This massive online open course (MOOC) aims to enhance understanding of the heightened protection risks and vulnerabilities that children are facing around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This Practitioner Guidance Paper shares the different approaches taken by three Family for Every Child Members to mitigate this disruption: moving to online learning for unaccompanied minors with METAdrasi in Greece; using the radio to provide far-reaching lessons with FOST in Zimbabwe; and engaging parents in their children's education using a socially-distanced homework collection system with CAP Liberia.
In this article, the young people and team at the Nether Johnstone House in Scotland share some of their reflections and learnings of lockdown.
This report was developed with extensive input from LGBTQ+ young people currently or formerly in foster care, LGBTQ+ young people currently or formerly experiencing homelessness, and direct service workers. It identifies how the pandemic is amplifying some of the risks for LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare systems and propose practices to mitigate them.