This report draws on data from 148 countries and explores issues of particular relevance in the current crisis, including the impact of socio-economic factors, drivers of child trafficking and trafficking for forced labour, and traffickers’ use of the internet.
This webinar featured presentations and discussions from practitioners who have experience of working on alternative care (short term and long term) and prioritising family-based care in emergency settings that could be helpful for practitioners in India as they plan a response for children who have lost parents to COVID-19.
Coram, the UK’s first children’s charity, commissioned YouGov to carry out an online poll of 2,092 UK adults, who were asked questions regarding children in care and care leavers. YouGov provided a breakdown of responses by groups of respondents and Coram's own qualitative and quantitative analysis of the answers follows.
Ce rapport de recherche sur l’impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les enfants travailleurs et en situation de handicap ainsi que sur les enfants talibés, montre que les enfants les plus vulnérables et marginalisés sont les victimes cachées de cette crise au Sénégal.
This brief resource from Who Cares? Scotland explores barriers to graduation for care-experienced young people, including moving placement, lack of space or equipment to study, challenges with mental health, finances, and housing, to name a few.
This report examines the rise in child labor and poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic in three countries: Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda, the impact on children’s rights, and government responses.
Upwards of, and possibly more than 500 000 Australians experienced care in an orphanage, Home or other form of out-of-home care during the last century. This report shares their stories.
This systematic review explores foster children’s and foster parents’ perceptions of factors related to a successful placement.
This study used mortality and fertility data to model minimum estimates and rates of COVID-19-associated deaths of primary or secondary caregivers for children younger than 18 years in 21 countries.
This document compares three versions of the same home visiting model, aimed at improving parent-child interactions and child development: the well-known Jamaica model, which was gradually scaled up from an efficacy trial (‘proof of concept’) in Jamaica, to a pilot in Colombia, to an at-scale program in Peru.
This report lays out the results of a preliminary mapping exercise to document the ways in which the United States supports and perpetuates overseas orphanages. It is based on: an analysis of existing data; a literature review of U.S government publications and investments; a review of non-profit organizations and foundation activities; an analysis of key supply chains and stakeholders; and the identification of existing data gaps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Nine Basic Requirements for Meaningful and Ethical Child Participation is a key tool for ensuring quality child participation in any initiative with children.
The Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS) is the first large-scale prospective longitudinal study of children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC) in Australia.
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.
This virtual study tour aims to provide you with a strong understanding of care reform in Rwanda
from the comfort of your own home.
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.
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.
This paper paints a picture of current progress towards ensuring that all families have access to affordable and high-quality childcare, and considers the implications of the current COVID-19 crisis for childcare globally.
This report published by UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, ranks countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) based on their national childcare and parental leave policies.
This two-part launch event reveals research, insights, and a new, 7-point plan for how to achieve equality in care work, launched in this year’s State of the World’s Fathers 2021 report.
The State of the World’s Fathers 2021 report – the fourth in the series – presents research on care work during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on structural barriers that prevent equitable distribution of caregiving between women and men.
