Institutional variety rather than the end of residential care: Regional responses to deinstitutionalisation reforms in Russia

Anna Tarasenko - Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space

This chapter traces and explains responses to deinstitutionalisation reforms in the Russian regions. Three parallel policy shifts are taken into account: deinstitutionalisation (DI), public sector reform, and social provision reform.

Position Paper: Collaboration Across Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and Education in Emergencies [v.2]

Mark Chapple- The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

In this paper, the the Alliance and INEE set out the evidence supporting collaboration and integration between the sectors, providing a rationale for cross-sector work grounded in child well-being and holistic development.

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Disclosure and identity experiences of adults abandoned as babies: A qualitative study

Lorraine Sherr, Kathryn J. Roberts & Natasha Croome - Cogent Psychology

This qualitative study examined disclosure for adult survivors of abandonment. Findings are centred around the experience of disclosure, the process of disclosure specifically exploring the role of half-truths and finally the impact of disclosure on the search for identity and self.

Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions: Insights and Implications for Advocacy and Awareness Raising

Rebecca Nhep, Better Care Network; Dr Kate van Doore, Law Futures Centre & Griffith Law School

This study explores the effect of COVID-19 on a small number of privately run and funded residential care institutions by conducting a qualitative research study comprising 21 semi-structured interviews across seven focus countries.

Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions Case Study 2: Lu Lu's Children's Home

Eriks Development Partner, Kinnected, Better Care Network, World Childhood Foundation, and Griffith University Law Centre

This case study is drawn from the Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions Study. It presents a summary of the account given by one participant.

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2020 Annual Meeting on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action: Action Points on the Protection of Children and Infectious Disease Outbreaks

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

This report highlights the actions points for all sectors to apply during future waves of COVID-19 and infectious disease outbreaks that emerged from Day 3 of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. 

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Care for child development implementation in East Africa: Experiences from Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

Early Childhood Development Network (ECDAN), UNICEF, Aga Khan Foundation, Lego Foundation, Africa Early Childhood Development Network

This webinar, informed by both detailed case studies developed by the Aga Khan Development Network and UNICEF programme implementation in Zambia with the support of the LEGO Foundation, provided a unique opportunity to engage with and understand the experiences of government, development partners, civil society, frontline health workers, and parents in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Our Europe, Our Rights, Our Future: Children and young people's contribution to the new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child and the Child Guarantee

ChildFund Alliance, Eurochild, Save The Children, UNICEF, World Vision

The perspectives and priorities of more than 10,000 children and young people, from within and outside the European Union (EU), are expressed powerfully throughout this report.

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European Parliament – EU Alliance for Investing in Children Manifesto on Child Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU

The European Parliament, the Intergroup on Children’s Rights and the EU Alliance for Investing in Children

This manifesto calls on the Council of the EU and its Member States to be ambitious in the implementation the European Pillar of Social Rights, to adopt the Child Guarantee Council Recommendation as a matter of priority, and to ensure that the Child Guarantee starts being implemented six months from the adoption of the Recommendation.

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