“This week, the United Nations is meeting to review a proposed global framework for measures — indicators — of progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Global Action,” says Chief Executive of Lumos, Georgette Mulheir, in this piece for the World Post. With this in mind, Lumos, along with the Better Care Network and over 170 other organizations, have signed a letter to the UN urging the inclusion of children living outside of households and/or without parental care in UN data collection. The letter also calls on the UN to expand the use of data to include “third-party data.” The detriments of institutional care to a child’s psychological, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellbeing are widely acknowledged. For institutionalized children around the world, “it may not be too late to change the odds. Counting all children is a good place to start.”
