This Executive Summary provides an overview of the Lancet Group Commission, which advocates global reform of the care of separated children through the progressive replacement of institutional provision with safe and nurturing family-based care. It provides essential information on both the global scale of institutionalisation and its physical, social, and mental health consequences. It presents a pragmatic roadmap for carefully managed change.
Related:
- Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 1: a systematic and integrative review of evidence regarding effects on development
- Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors
- Prevalence and number of children living in institutional care: global, regional, and country estimates
- Global prevalence of institutional care for children: a call for change
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