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Key Practitioner Messages
- The COVID‐19 pandemic has resulted in negative consequences for children exposed to violence and abuse.
- Domestic violence refuge staff were greatly concerned about children both living outside and inside refuges.
- Domestic violence refuges have played a pivotal role during the COVID‐19 pandemic and should receive wider acknowledgement and greater support for their work.
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Background
As a response to COVID-19 the population of England was asked to stay at home and work from there wherever possible. This included those working in children’s social care (CSC) who have responsibility for child protection and other safeguarding duties.
Objective
The study was designed to understand how CSC made the transition from being an office-based agency to one where the majority of social workers were based at home and to understand how CSC perceived the impact on children and their families. Participants and setting Senior members of CSC staff in 15…
In this short editorial, the organization New Beginnings shares the stories of three of the families they work with who have wanted to explain what lockdown has meant for them during this peculiar time. One of the stories comes from a parent whose children were removed from her care two weeks into lockdown. Another comes from a parent whose daughter has since been reunited with her from foster care.
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This continuing professional development paper provides an overview of the impact that COVID‐19 has had on specialist services delivering support to children and young people experiencing domestic violence and abuse (DVA). It draws upon the experiences of being the operational manager of two specialist children's services. The target audience includes professionals working with young people in a range of settings including schools, youth clubs and statutory services. This understanding also contributes valuable insight for those with a strategic or commissioning responsibility…
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Background
Great Britain has the highest coronavirus death rate in Europe. While the pandemic clearly poses a risk to the lives and wellbeing of vulnerable groups, necessary public health measures taken to delay or limit the spread of the virus have led to distinctive challenges for prevention, family support, court processes, placement and alternative care. The pandemic has also come about at a time when statutory changes to partnerships have led to a reduction in the importance of educational professional representation in the new formulation in England and Wales.…
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Out-of-home care, especially treatment residential care programs (TRC) are often described in the media, and even in some professional studies, as obsolete social structures (Consensus Statement, 2014). Residential care settings are out-of-home facilities such as educational youth villages and educational, therapeutic, or rehabilitation residential treatment centers (Grupper, 2013). Their aim is to provide education, treatment, rehabilitation or protection for children and youth, including those at risk and others, to protect these young people and work toward making a…
In Scotland, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner’s job is to be a fierce champion for children and to protect and promote children’s human rights. During the coronavirus pandemic, the Commissioner, along with many other people, saw that both the United Kingdom Government and the Scottish Government had made lots of new laws very quickly to protect people from the risk of the virus, and to protect their human rights to life and health. But they had not completed CRIAs for many of these new laws to think about their impact on children’s human rights.
The Commissioner asked a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on every aspect of children’s lives in Scotland and across the world. The measures taken to protect life and health in the early stages of the pandemic were necessary and proportionate, and the significant sacrifices that children, young people and adults made to support public heath should be properly recognised.
However, this Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment identifies significant concerns around decision making and scrutiny and highlights the impact on children and young people of the responses to COVID-19 in Scotland. Human rights do…
Child poverty in Europe was already unacceptably high before the COVID-19 virus outbreak. In 2018, one in four children in the European Union (EU) were already growing up at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The crisis has had devastating consequences for people across the continent and the evidence from this paper shows that children and their families have been further disadvantaged during the pandemic.
The financial pressure on families, the impact of the closure of services on children’s lives, the online education inequality and the impact of the crisis on refugee and migrant…
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Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have heard how fostering households across the UK quickly adapted to support children in these unprecedented times. Many foster carers assumed additional responsibilities and roles overnight: supporting children with home learning, supervising virtual contact with birth families in their own home, facilitating virtual social worker visits as well as all their usual fostering duties and responsibilities.
Lockdown has had a significant impact on fostering households. While some foster carers have reported an increase in challenging…