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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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At least 5 million children have lost a parent or caregiver due to #COVID19 since March 2020, updated figures suggest. The authors of this Lancet article urge actions to prioritise affected children, incl. economic strengthening, enhanced community and family support, and education.
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An estimated 6.7 million children have suffered from COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver death in the past two years (as of January 15, 2022). This number is rapidly growing: every 6 seconds another child loses a parent or caregiver. This collaborative-led memo, issued by dozens of leading international NGOs, outlines the magnitude of loss globally due to COVID-19 and presents tangible steps that the U.S. government can take to support children and families.
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Understanding the Situation |
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BICON 2021 was an opportunity for government and intergovernmental representatives, civil society organisations, practitioners, academics and most importantly care experienced young people to come together and discuss the most pressing issues regarding children’s care in Asia. With a focus on implementation, practitioners shared examples of innovation, highlighted promising practices, and showcased local solutions to challenges faced by countries across Asia. The report is filled with challenges, recommendations, session summaries, speaker bios and more.
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A Protection Cluster, led by UNHCR, coordinates the protection response and advocates for the improvement of policies and legislation affecting conflict-affected people. This is the Protection Cluster Ukraine's protection snapshot for the period February 25 - March 1, 2022.
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This paper explores perspectives on family reunification and emergent forms of separation among young migrants. These young people lived apart from and later reunited with their migrant parents who moved from the Philippines to Canada for work.
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There are limited studies which investigate the perceived needs and wellbeing of parents caring for their children with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This qualitative study uniquely explored the experiences and cultural factors of Vietnamese parents caring for children with a disability in multicultural Australia.
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This spotlight inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Looked After Children and Care Leavers in the UK highlights what ‘community’ means to care-experienced people and explores what might be done to help strengthen important community relationships and connections for current and future generations of children in care. It contains 15 practical recommendations for changes that could be made in the near future to improve the ways in which the care system supports young people to connect with their communities.
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The overall aim of this study was to examine the profile of care leavers with mental health and/or intellectual disabilities in order to better inform how best to configure child and adult service systems to meet their transitional needs.
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines |
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This guidance has been compiled for service providers who are working with children, families, and separated children in response to the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine and surrounding countries.
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Responding to the crisis in Ukraine, Oxford University parenting experts together with their international colleagues, produced this easy-to-use guidance for families and other organisations on supporting children in the current emergency. The guide is based on evidence-based research.
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This booklet is based on a pilot study testing the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a light touch parenting intervention for caregivers in the West Bank.
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This booklet was produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in collaboration with The University of Manchester and aims to help parents and their children as they navigate challenges and stay connected as a family.
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Although long-term fostering has existed for many years as an important part of the foster care service, it was only in 2015 that the U.S. government issued the first regulations and guidance on long-term foster care. The introduction of these Department for Education regulations and guidance supports long-term foster care with both kinship and non-kinship carers as a positive permanence option. The aim of this study was to investigate their implementation.
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The purpose of this analysis was to compare perspectives of frontline workers, administrators, and experts in child abuse and neglect in a system with mandatory reporting (Colorado, United States) and one without mandatory reporting (The Netherlands).
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This report provides guidance for humanitarian workers on the key actions and considerations to apply when developing or implementing programming to prevent harm to children in humanitarian settings at the population level. The framework highlights guiding principles and specific actions to take within each of the five steps of the program management cycle for effective primary prevention efforts. Supporting resources and practical tools are linked within each step.
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This report is based on consultations with parents and allies in England carried out by Parent Families and Allies Network; Love Barrow Families; New Beginnings; Parent and Carer Alliance; and Southwark Family Council and Parent to Parent Peer Advocacy. It sets out ideas on making the care system more supportive, humane and inclusive, and ensuring families’ needs are met early, with advocacy as a core feature. It also argues for immediate changes, led by parents and children with lived experience of social care.
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This toolbox can be used by organizations working with and for vulnerable children and adults, particularly those at risk of separation or living in alternative care. It can support those in the organization who are responsible for:
- developing and implementing safeguarding policy and procedures
- assessing safeguarding risk
- safeguarding in program development and implementation
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“Engaging Fathers – Putting Lessons Into Practice” is a three-part series to share strategies implemented from three of the five State or county agencies: Los Angeles county, California; Hartford, Connecticut; and Prowers county, Colorado. Part one focuses on the strategies developed within Hartford, Connecticut.
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This graphic is intended for use by professionals working within government agencies and non-governmental organizations in Guatemala engaged in different aspects of the protection and care system but specifically in support of reunification. It details specific roles and responsibilities of those engaged in this process in Guatemala and how they should coordinate.
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This CELSIS briefing builds on the 2019 briefing, Access to Care Records, which outlined the legislative and policy context in Scotland around care records. This briefing is for all practitioners involved in writing, managing and/or supporting access to care records, and draws on research, campaigning work, and knowledge from organisations and local authorities across Scotland including in social work and information governance teams.
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This Changing the Way We Care virtual study tour aims to provide an overview of care reform in Kenya 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.
See other Virtual Study Tours:
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This research looks at the planning and preparation that happens before leaving care in England. The report reflects the views of care leavers and whether the help they got when getting ready to leave care was what they needed, and how involved they were in the decisions made about their future.
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The UNICEF-Changing the Way We Care Regional Learning Platform for Eastern and Southern Africa held its first webinar of the year on Child Protection System Strengthening and Care Reform. The webinar outlined the ten components of a system strengthening approach to care reform and provided three examples of putting these components into practice.
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The goal of the summit was to lead lasting change in the lives of millions of people with disabilities. To succeed, it is crucial that governments, international organizations, civil society and private business commit themselves to increased efforts to promote inclusion and rights-based development.
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Yaroslav Trofimov - Wall Street Journal 01 Mar 2022
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Alison Motluk - The Atlantic 01 Mar 2022
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The Associated Press 01 Mar 2022
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Gaby Levin - Haaretz 28 Feb 2022
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Associated Press 28 Feb 2022
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Salmah Namwanje - AllAfrica 27 Feb 2022
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Luis de Leon - 9News 26 Feb 2022
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Marecia Damons - Ground Up 25 Feb 2022
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Ryan Thoreson - Human Rights Watch 24 Feb 2022
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Darcy Olsen - USA Today 24 Feb 2022
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Catherine Flynn - The Conversation 23 Feb 2022
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Ross Brown - Toronto Star 23 Feb 2022
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André Gallant - University of Georgia Research 23 Feb 2022
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India Pollock - BBC Wales 17 Feb 2022
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SOS Children's Villages - 17 February 2022
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Nina Jacobs - Children & Young People Now 14 Feb 2022
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Lauren Woodhead, Emily Unia - BBC News 03 Feb 2022
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Romanian News Agency 20 Jan 2022
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Newsletter participants, currently 5,260 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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