Resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown, EPIC (Empowering People in Care) decided to contact all young people’s residential centres in Ireland. This article present the results of that survey.

Focusing on three critical facets of the U.S. child welfare system — reporting and investigating maltreatment, placement and other system metrics, and permanency — this Essay explores how the pandemic impacts the child welfare system and how the system should respond.

This webpage from the International Labour Organization (ILO) features data on global social protection measures and responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

This think piece from Innocenti, UNICEF's Office of Research, unpacks what COVID-19 means for data collection efforts on violence against children (VAC). 

Parenting for Lifelong Health provides open-access online parenting resources during COVID-19.

In this statement on the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Center for the Study of Social Policy calls for more support for those who are likely to be hurt most by the current crisis, particularly low-income families.

This article from UNICEF offers seven ways employers can support parents working to care for themselves, their children and their families during the COVID-19 outbreak.

FEANTSA calls for public authorities at local, regional, national and European level to take these seven measures to protect homeless people and public health.

These additional considerations are intended to provide guidance for a range of child care programs that remain open, and should be used in conjunction with CDC’s guidance for administrators of child care programs and K-12 schools.

This webpage from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University lists some simple, free activities to help support a child’s healthy development during the COVID-19 crisis.