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Wishing you Peace, Joy and
Good Health this Season!
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As 2021 comes to a close, we would like to thank you for another year of continued collaboration, support, and commitment to children’s care particularly in light of the ongoing challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts on children and families across the globe.
We look forward to bringing you the latest research, news, and updates in the new year and to working with you to strengthen global knowledge exchange and collaboration to transform children's care.
Happy Holidays from the BCN Team!
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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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This report estimates the number of children who lost a parent or other caregiver to COVID-19 and provides concrete recommendations for urgent actions to protect these vulnerable children and their remaining caregivers.
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As UNICEF commemorates its 75th year, this report lays out the work in front of us by taking stock of the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on children and the road to respond and recover to reimagine the future for every child.
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Understanding the Situation |
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This Global Thematic Review examines the growing evidence of the links between the institutionalisation of children and human trafficking. It highlights how the relationship between the two compounds the harmful nature of both phenomena and offers insight into the global response needed.
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This paper examines the role that household surveys – such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) – can play in increasing our understanding of the influence of living arrangements on children’s vulnerability, care, and well-being.
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Grandmothers are important in Chinese families. This study explored the early emerging mother-grandmother-infant network and its association with a child's socioemotional development in multigenerational families in a non-WEIRD country.
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This report contains the findings from a nationally representative study conducted by Barna Group of U.S. Christians to better understand U.S. Christian beliefs around and support for orphanages, children’s homes and other forms of residential care for children. It includes data on the amount of funding given to residential care, as well as visits and short-term missions to orphanages.
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This virtual study tour aims to provide you with an overview of care reform in Malawi from the comfort of your own home. Care reform relates to the care of children. It refers to efforts to improve the legal and policy frameworks, structures, services, supports and resources that determine and deliver alternative care, prevent family separation and support families to care for children well.
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This briefing, authored by Jorge Cuartas with End Violence and the Early Childhood Development Action Network examines evidence from research on the impacts of violent punishment on young children, global prevalence and progress towards universal prohibition, and strategies to end corporal punishment. It adds yet more weight to the call that all countries must take steps to prohibit and eliminate violent punishment of all children without delay.
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines |
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This report provides a framework for governments to develop their own roadmap for child protection and care system reform and deinstitutionalisation. The authors hope that it will inspire a conversation, guide inter-ministerial and cross society dialogue, support multidisciplinary groups at all levels to frame their own assessment, and plan their own roadmap for change.
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This toolkit is the outcome of four seminars organised by the Service Civil International (SCI), and calls for all volunteering organisations in Europe to take a strong stand against racism and colonialism.
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This toolkit includes guidance for implementing the care system assessment, the assessment framework itself, and corresponding training materials. Together, this guidance document, the framework and training resources are intended to support stakeholders to plan and conduct an assessment, use assessment results to develop a national strategy and, over time, monitor progress in strengthening national care systems.
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The aim of this toolkit is to increase the capacity and confidence of those working in children’s care, child protection and family strengthening to mainstream disability through every step, utilizing improvements to systems, practices, skills and attitudes. The toolkit reinforces the importance of placing family care for children with disabilities at the top of any care reform agenda.
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Transitioning Residential Care Services Video Case Studies
To access the full set of case studies or the training package, visit the BCN Transition Hub.
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Video 1: Connecting Transition to Systems Level Reforms: Child's i Foundation, Uganda |
Video 3: Loyalty and Commitment - Enjoy Church, Australia/Myanmar |
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Video 2: Making the Case for Transition - Kinnected Partner, India/Australia |
Video 4: Understanding Stakeholders' Motivations - ACCIR, Cambodia |
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Video 5: How Othering Can Impact Transition and Reintegration - Global Child Advocates, Thailand |
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Video 6: Managing Social Obligations in the Transition Process - Kinnected Myanmar, Myanmar |
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This case study is organized around the various stages of transition and explores some of the key themes outlined in the Transitioning Models of Care Assessment Tool. It also features a timeline that provides a visual representation of the key milestones and durations of each of the stages of transition.
*Names and locations of individuals and organizations have been changed; however, the details represent a true account.
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Millions of children in developing countries are unable to live at home for a variety of reasons. The fate of these children is a concern for many people. Some start projects, volunteer with children or support an orphanage. This guide is for them. It is also important for organisations that do not specifically focus on vulnerable children. Because children without sufficient paren-tal care are everywhere: in schools, villages and poor areas in big cities.
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This webinar, co-hosted with the Martin James Foundation, explores lessons learned in the development and strengthening of foster care systems in a number of countries and contexts, including emerging foster care systems in Bulgaria, Uganda, Cambodia, and Bangladesh as well as the more established foster care system in the UK, with a view to examining challenges and successes in implementation.
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For more practitioner learning videos, watch our Cambodia and Uganda series
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This panel discussed coronavirus-associated caregiver loss and the work being done by the international community, the U.S. government, and faith-based actors to support vulnerable children and turn the tide toward better care. It was moderated by Gillian Huebner, executive director of the Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues.
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Community Care 17 Dec 2021
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Children and Young People Now, 16 Dec 2021
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New York Times 16 Dec 2021
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The Indian Express 15 Dec 2021
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California News Times 10 Dec 2021
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The New York Times, 09 Dec 2021
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The New York Times, 01 Dec 2021
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Agence France-Presse in Copenhagen 22 Nov 2021
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Harvard Political Review, 21 Nov 2021
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The Guardian, 20 Nov 2021
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Newsletter participants, currently 4,553 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.
Thank you!
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