Instaurer une société bienveillante pour nos enfants et nos jeunes: Rapport de la Commission spéciale sur les droits des enfants et la protection de la jeunesse (CSDEPJ)

Gouvernement du Québec

Après deux années de travail intense, la Commission spéciale sur les droits des enfants et la protection de la jeunesse (CSDEPJ) présente publiquement avec beaucoup de fébrilité son rapport final.

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A Web of Insecurity: Gendered risks and vulnerabilities for children on the move during the COVID-19 pandemic

The International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC)

This issue brief surveys the existing literature based on the limited available data to highlight areas of urgent concern for children on the move as they navigate life during the pandemic, examined through the lens of gender.

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Preprint: ‘Tear down your institutions’. Empirical and evolutionary perspectives on institutional care in SOS Children’s Villages

Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg - PsyArXi

This study utilizes narrative and quantitative synthesis to review the scientific evidence on the associations between growing up in SOS villages and child development in various domains. Results showed developmental delays of SOS children compared with their peers in families. Compared to children in typical institutions SOS children do better on mental health but worse on physical growth. The preliminary evidence suggests that SOS Children’s Villages should move away from institutional arrangements to family care.

The principles of Nurturing Care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence

Maureen M Black, et al - BMJ Global Health

This paper proposes a comprehensive, multisectoral, multilevel life-course conceptualisation of human capital development by building on the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF), originally developed for the foundational period of growth and development through the age 3 years.

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