The Better Care Network will continue to share tools, guidance, information, and other resources regarding children's care and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic as practitioners, policymakers, and other key stakeholders work to respond to the needs of children and families impacted by this crisis. For more resources on COVID-19 and children's care, visit the growing collection of documents in the BCN COVID-19 Resource Center.
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Understanding the risks and responses to children’s caregiving environment during COVID-19 remains limited. This is especially the case in humanitarian settings. This brief focuses on strategies to strengthen the caregiving environment through family- and community-based approaches. It also offers a series of case studies from various humanitarian and emergency contexts.
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Increased and long-term parental stress related to one's parental role can lead to parental burnout. In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, families experienced intensified pressure due to the government-initiated contact restrictions applied to prevent the spread of the virus in the population. This study investigates the risk factors and predictors of parental burnout in a large sample of parents during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.
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This study is part of a larger initiative using an international platform to examine child maltreatment reports and child protective service responses in various countries. The first data collection, which included a comparison between eight countries after the pandemic's first wave (March–June 2020), illustrated a worrisome picture regarding children's wellbeing. The current study presents the second wave of data across 12 regions via population data.
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The goal of this call to action is to draw attention to the sleep health of children residing in alternative care settings. It highlights the need for a more robust evidence base to address major knowledge gaps and outline concrete steps toward building future promising sleep health-promoting practices and policies supporting children residing in alternative care settings.
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This article explores responses of 41 UK social workers to ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising UK data from an international qualitative survey and follow-up interviews in 2020. Challenges ranged from weighing individual rights/needs against public health risks, to deciding whether to follow government/agency rules and guidance.
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Understanding the Situation |
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The Unprotected Series maintains an important spotlight on the resources needed and those available for child protection actors to provide essential and life-saving services across the humanitarian system.
This report covers funding for 2020 with a snapshot of the trends and responses for 2021 to map out how the sector is meeting the needs of children to keep them safe and protected from harm.
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The DataCare Project was launched by Eurochild with support from UNICEF in March 2020. The project aims to carry out a comprehensive mapping of child protection data systems across the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) and the UK. In addition to providing an overview of the situation of children in alternative care in Europe, this project aims to inform EU efforts to agree to comparable benchmarks and indicators to monitor progress in child protection reforms across Europe.
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This two-pager highlights 2018-2020 results of the The Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC) initiative for decision makers, government officials, media, other institutions or organizations working with children and adolescents, and private and public counterparts.
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This report highlights the changing characteristics of children in and on the ‘edge of care’, including unaccompanied minors, increasing numbers of young people with unmet complex needs and BAME young people. It also outlines some of the longer-term trends that vulnerable teenagers face, including county lines, sexual exploitation and violence and how these have altered and, in some cases, been made worse by the pandemic.
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Задача проведенного авторами исследования – выявить социальные установки выпускников детских (интернатных) учреждений, касающиеся собственной траектории социальной и профессиональной адаптации, и сопоставить, насколько выявленным установкам соответствуют существующие программы постинтернатной адаптации, реализуемые НКО.
The task of this research is to assess the role that NPOs play in the formation of certain social attitudes of graduates of child care (boarding) institutions (ex-orphanages).
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This volume offers first-hand accounts of lived experiences of young people growing up in some form of residential child and youth care in 19 African countries.
This is volume 4 in the Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World Series.
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"Left-behind children" refer to children whose parents or one of them go out to work in the city all year round. Due to the education conditions in the city, they stay alone in the countryside. Because they are separated from their parents all the year round, the lack of good family education in their growth environment has brought many negative effects on their growth and also caused more serious social problems. This study includes an interview of 40 left-behind children and 20 guardians in G Village, Guizhou Province. It also analyzes the physical and mental health and safety hazards of left-behind children and their causes.
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This article presents how the current medical and public health models for child mental healthcare, do not adequately address the complexities of child protection and mental health. It argues for mental health professionals to: (a) recognise the role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in mental health morbidity; (b) adopt an alternative approach, namely that of transdisciplinarity, to enable more effective solutions to children’s psychosocial and mental health issues, through systemic reform and transformation.
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The objective of the study was to evaluate the health and nutritional status of four registered orphanages of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The study found that institutionalized children and adolescents are at risk of developing malnutrition due to financial constraints and ignorance of caregivers, which can lead to ill health of children.
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This study examined the reasons for the pervasiveness of the practice of child abandonment, using the “Skolombo Boys and Lakasara Girls’’ in Calabar, the state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria, as the analytical context.
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Представлен обзор проблемы готовности сирот к самостоятельной жизни. Показано, что внешние детерминанты готовности к самостоятельной жизни связаны со спецификой взросления сирот и находятся в исследовательском поле социальной адаптации выпускников детских домов.
Low readiness for independent living is what underlies the problems of social adaptation in children and adolescents from orphan organizations. This review explores how scientists and practitioners interpret this very concept of readiness for independent living.
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The causes of institutionalization are multiple and the impact it causes is reflected in different areas such as the development of the child in general, such as mental, psychic structuring, health, and nutrition. Psychologically, children present alterations in their cognitive, emotional, sexual, and social domains with a high probability of developing several pathological conditions. This chapter presents an overview of this phenomenon based on several research investigations carried out in Spain, Latin America, and Mexico.
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines |
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Three decades of reporting from the States Parties to the Committee on the Rights of the Child have revealed many gaps between the promise of the convention and the reality on the ground for children. This book is an article-by-article analysis of almost all substantive, organizational, and procedural provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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The Data and Analytics Section at UNICEF Headquarters developed a data collection protocol and tools for conducting a census of residential care facilities, the enumeration of children, and a survey of child well-being that can be replicated and adapted in a variety of country contexts.
Additional resources:
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A growing movement of illegally adopted individuals request remedies and reparations for the human rights violations that they and their biological families had suffered. This article explores a number of measures that the stakeholders in the receiving countries can use in an effort to repair the human rights violations caused by illegal intercountry adoptions, borrowing ideas from transitional justice.
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This comprehensive situational analysis was comprised of seven unique pieces of research, conducted by individual researchers, research firms and CTWWC, and in close coordination the Government of Moldova. The research explored the following:
- capacity and competencies of the social assistance workforce
- case management tools and practices
- type and prevalence of public and private social support services
- knowledge, awareness, and practices of the population towards key topics related to care including vulnerable families and children, deinstitutionalization, reintegrated children and youth, disability, and inclusive education
- legislation, policies and funding streams for care
- scale and profile of children and youth currently living in six residential care facilities targeted for a deinstitutionalization process and lessons learned from previous reunification efforts in Moldova
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This paper examines the nature and benefits of foster care and identifies some of the key challenges associated with this form of care in Eastern and Southern Africa. It outlines the elements of an enabling environment needed for successful large-scale foster care programmes, including legislation, guidance, changes to social norms, coordination mechanisms, and a strong social service workforce.
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Transitioning Residential Care Services Video Case Studies |
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They explore different aspects of learning on transitioning residential care services.
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The Canadian Launch of the GlobalChild Platform
GlobalChild is the world’s first comprehensive child rights monitoring platform. The Canadian launch of the GlobalChild platform took place on Dec. 13, 2021, the 30th Anniversary of Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Watch the very first public demonstration of the platform in Canada.
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From Orphanage to Family Care
Learn more about the Family Care for Haitian Children pilot project in Haiti. The goal was to improve the planning and delivery of services for children in residential care centres and their families. See how families and communities were supported so they could stay together.
Alta Visita Stimulation and Nutrition Center is the residential center that was selected for this pilot.
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Agence-France Presse 24 Jan 2022
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Leena Hill - The Hill 07 Jan 2022
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David Leonhardt - New York Times 04 Jan 2022
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The Australian 04 Jan 2022
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Laura Sharman - LocalGov 04 Jan 2022
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Qishin Tariq - The Star 03 Jan 2022
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Jonah Kirabo - Nile Post News (Kampala) 03 Jan 2022
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The Conversation 03 Jan 2022
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Sharmila Ganesan Ram - The Times of India 02 Jan 2022
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Adi Renald - South China Morning Post 2 Jan 2022
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Bob Brown - Times Dispatch 2022
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Al Khaleej Today 1 Jan 2022
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Jane Chambers - BBC News 30 Dec 2021
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31 January 2022
(Applications will be recieved on a rolling basis until the position is filled)
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Newsletter participants, currently 4,576 in total, work on issues related to the care and support of vulnerable children across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. The purpose of the newsletter is to enable members to exchange information on matters of mutual concern. If you would like to share a document, raise a specific issue, request a newsletter subscription, or reach out in any other way to the Network, please send the information to us at contact@bettercarenetwork.org or visit our website at www.bettercarenetwork.org.
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