Transforming Children's Care Webinar #4: Child's Right to Identity in Alternative Care

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, Child Identity

This webinar, the fourth in a series from the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, explored the importance of protecting the child’s right to identity in how it is created, how it may be modified and/or falsified in alternative care as well as the need to preserve information about the child’s identity, notably family relations.

“Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees

JaeRan Kim - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study sought to understand how intercountry adoptees with adoption discontinuity histories experience legal, relational, and residential permanency losses through the framework of ambiguous loss and trauma.

Estimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US

Rachel Kidman, Rachel Margolis, Emily Smith-Greenaway, et al - JAMA Pediatrics

The authors of this study estimated the expected number of affected children for each COVID-19 death (the parental bereavement multiplier) in the U.S., enabling tracking of parental bereavement as the pandemic evolves. This article shares the results of that study.

Independent Child Safeguarding Review Report

Keeping Children Safe

The Independent Child Safeguarding Review (ICSR) was commissioned by the International Senate of SOS Children’s Villages to find ways to address the complex topic of child safeguarding failures. The report sets out consolidated findings and recommendations from four country reviews with the aim of contributing to improvements in safeguarding practice.

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Report on National Assessment of Centres caring for Children with Disabilities in Rwanda

National Council of Persons with Disabilities, National Commission for Children, UNICEF

The purpose of this assessment was to review service delivery in centres for children with disabilities in Rwanda. This report establishes relevant baseline information on institutional capacity including services offered, staffing levels and other parameters regarding care of children with disabilities.

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2021 Kids Count Data Book

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic.

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Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection

Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian - UNICEF

This blog post by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian of the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti calls attention to the risks faced by women and girls in light of the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts of the pandemic on women and girls' unpaid care work.