The Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued this statement to warn of the grave physical, emotional and psychological effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and calls on States to protect the rights of children.
Kusudi la dokezo hili la kitalaamu ni kusaidia watendaji wa ulinzi wa watoto na maafisa wa serikali katika mwitikio wao wa kukabiliana mara moja na changamoto za ulinzi wa watoto zinazowakabili watoto ambao wako katika hatari ya kutenganishwa na familia zao au kuwekwa mahali kwaajili ya uangalizi mbadala katika kipindi hiki cha janga la COVID-19.
Este documento complementar à Nota Técnica da Força-Tarefa Interagências sobre a Proteção de crianças e adolescentes durante a pandemia de COVID-19: Crianças, adolescentes e cuidados alternativos apresenta dicas úteis para promover o engajamento e a participação de todas as partes interessadas, algo crucial para a manutenção da continuidade dos serviços para crianças e adolescentes.
This tool is meant to help practitioners stay grounded in family strengths as a way to overcome challenges and help families thrive even when the current COVID-19 crisis is weighing heavily on practitioners' and families' minds.
This article illuminates the important role the Committee on the Rights of the Child played in monitoring child abuse and neglect in the implementation of the now thirty years old Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
In this study, a transdisciplinary group of key stakeholders in Australia jointly constructed a causal loop diagram to bring forth the systemic structure underlying the issue of repeat child removals (where parents lose successive infants and children to out-of-home care) and identify system conditions that need to be altered.
This exploratory secondary data analysis compares demographics, mental health/well-being, and protective mothering strategies of mothers who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) whose children were taken into care compared to those whose children were not to identify key characteristics associated with children being removed by child protective service (CPS) in Western Canada.
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and resilience in Eritrean unaccompanied refugee minors living with foster parents in Sudan.
Based on the resilience theory, which highlights the role of one’s social resources in fostering resilience, the current study explored the role of care leavers' formal and informal social networks during the transition to adulthood, from the point of view of 50 young adults and their social workers.
This study examined whether childhood out-of-home care was associated with all-cause mortality until the end of 2013 in the UK.
This policy brief reports new causal evidence of how foster care influences children’s safety and educational outcomes in the U.S. state of Michigan.
With a recent interest by stakeholders in Ghana to consider kinship care as an alternative care option in child welfare policy, this study explores current kinship care challenges to help identify and address potential setbacks for policy and practice recommendations.
The current study uses two randomized control trials, one conducted with foster caregivers and one conducted with birth parents, to investigate the longitudinal effects of caregiver type (foster versus birth parent) and a home-visiting parenting intervention on emotion regulation among young children referred to Child Protective Services (CPS).
The purpose of this study was to determine the financial challenges faced by caregivers of orphans in Kitui Central Subcounty, Kitui County, Kenya.
In this study, the authors interviewed social care practitioners including directors, senior and middle managers, frontline social workers, social worker‐academics and family support workers who work with vulnerable children to identify the issues and concerns held by social care workers about placing vulnerable children in boarding schools.
The current study aimed to describe the relative contributions of measures of professional quality of life (ProQOL) to intent on leaving the workforce among child welfare professionals.
This study systematically summarizes the effect of parenting interventions on kinship foster caregivers and their cared for children, and examines the intervention strategies and research methods used in order to provide a context in which to better understand effects of interventions.
This video from UNICEF Cambodia, in the Khmer language, explores children protection case management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar focuses on standard 16 from the 2019 edition of the CPMS - strengthening family and caregiving environments - in the context of the current global COVID-19 pandemic.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and UNICEF facilitated this webinar to discuss the guidance in the Technical Note on COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty and some of the successes and challenges in protecting the rights of children in detention during the pandemic.
This report from Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission aimed to trace the past laws, practices and policies which resulted in the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families by compulsion, duress or undue influence, and the effects of those laws, practices and policies.
This article from UNICEF Cambodia describes how UNICEF and its partners are responding to the needs of children in residential care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study aims at comparing subjective well-being (SWB) of children in residential care and in foster families in two European territories or jurisdictions: Portugal and Catalonia (Spain).
This report presents the findings from a study of the organisational and institutional context of statutory children’s social care (CSC) in England and its contribution to inequalities in provision.
This review brought together studies which investigate whether or not family group decision making works better, for the children concerned, than traditional child protection decision-making.
