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… 2020, the world faces an unprecedented pandemic, with COVID-19 raging across the globe, taking lives and wreaking … 2020, the world faces an unprecedented pandemic, with COVID-19 raging across the globe, taking lives and wreaking …
… isolation and mental health needs. Importantly, the COVID pandemic may mean parents’ support needs increasingly … isolation and mental health needs. Importantly, the COVID pandemic may mean parents’ support needs increasingly …
Knowledge of child development is the foundation for work with children, and therefore is a requirement for all those seeking to protect children. It influences every aspect of a child from physical growth and mental abilities, to how they express emotions, think and behave.
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Healthy development takes children through stages, whereby they obtain an increasing number of physical, mental, and emotional skills in order to become independent adults. These stages provide benchmarks for determining if a child is developing normally. Without knowledge of the normal…
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is having a devastating impact on the well-being of children, particularly in those countries with the highest HIV prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and parts of Asia. The virus affects children in multiple ways; they may lose one or both parents and other family members, or become infected with the disease.
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Aside from the physical and psychosocial stress associated with the onset of the disease itself and the experience of loss of loved ones, children affected by HIV/AIDS may additionally be subjected to the burden of…
… du mandat5. Malheureusement, en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19, les groupes de discussion d’enfants et de jeunes … présents8. En raison des bouleversements engendrés par la COVID-19, des rencontres ont finalement dû être annulées. 5 … la preuve durant des mois en visioconférence, épidémie de COVID-19 oblige. Ils ont délibéré pour en arriver à des …
Child care and protection policies regulate the care of children, including the type of support and assistance to be offered, good practice guidelines for the implementation of services, standards for care, and adequate provisions for implementation. They relate to the care a child receives at and away from home.
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States and all organisations with child care programmes should have child care policies which are in line with national legislation and international law, e.g. the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). In line with the CRC, emphasis should be placed on the…
Poverty is a leading cause of child separation. Families may be torn apart by the stresses of trying to provide for their basic needs, and children may be abandoned or exploited for financial purposes. Household economic strengthening aims to reduce a family’s vulnerability to poverty, increase economic independence, and improve people’s ability to provide for their children.
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Economic strengthening alone will not prevent separation or protect children, and should form part of a comprehensive support package, including psychosocial work, community…