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Background
COVID-19 has become a worldwide pandemic impacting child protection services (CPSs) in many countries. With quarantine and social distancing restrictions, school closures, and recreational venues suspended or providing reduced access, the social safety net for violence prevention has been disrupted significantly. Impacts include the concerns of underreporting and increased risk of child abuse and neglect, as well as challenges in operating CPSs and keeping their workforce safe.
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The current discussion paper explored the impact of COVID-19 on child…
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Poverty and teenage pregnancy are common in low‐and‐middle‐income countries and can impede the development of healthy parent‐child relationships. This study aimed to test whether a home‐visiting intervention could improve early attachment relationships between adolescent mothers and their infants living in poverty in Brazil. Analyses were conducted on secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial (NCT0280718) testing the efficacy of a home‐visiting program, Primeiros Laços, on adolescent mothers’ health and parenting skills and their infants’ development.…
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Background
The COVID-19 pandemic deeply affected child protection professionals. One potential area of concern is whether and how the pandemic has dampened these individuals’ ability to engage in the resilient practices that are so vital to their wellbeing.
Objective
Within the unique and understudied context of a developing economy facing the strain of an international pandemic, this study sought to expand our theoretical understanding of the individual and socio-ecological predictors of whether child protective services professionals engage in resilient behaviors.…
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Young children need nurturing care, which includes responsive caregiver–child interactions and opportunities to learn. However, there are few extant large‐scale programs that build parents’ abilities to provide this. We have developed an early childhood parenting training package, called Reach Up, with the aim of providing an evidence‐based, adaptable program that is feasible for low‐resource settings. Implementation of Reach Up was evaluated in Brazil and Zimbabwe to inform modifications needed and identify challenges that implementers and delivery agents encountered. Interview…
Executive Summary
This report presents the findings from a study that aimed to explore the application in practice of the ‘necessity principle’ from the Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children (UN, 2009) by using three quantitative and three qualitative indicators that provide information about whether children and families have received support to the fullest extent possible before a child ends up outside of parental care arrangements in formal or informal care, or living alone.
The indicators assume that a child in the care of his or her own parents and family is more likely to be…
This presentation was given by Rosana Morgado, professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, at Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support on 26-27 May 2014. The presentation focuses on the risks facing, and the needs of, poor families in Brazil.
Family for Every Child is aimed at enabling more children to grow up safe and protected in families and to access temporary, quality alternative care when needed. This report incorporates the views and collective expertise of the 15 national organizations working directly with vulnerable children worldwide that came together to form Family for Every Child.
This report highlights the needs of children without adequate family care, the impact inadequate care has on children and society, and why family care is important. Some of the negative impacts on children, according to the report,…
The “Men Who Care” report is a five-country (Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, and South Africa) study that explores the topic of men who are involved in non-traditional forms of care work. These men are described as engaging in care beyond what is traditional amongst their male peers, including men in primary caregiving for children or others at home but also men in paid care work professions where women predominates. The study examines how they view their own work, how they came to be engaged in it, and asks a number of questions about the perceptions around engaging in what some cultures…
Social protection, including social transfers and social services for the most vulnerable and marginalized, is gaining momentum as a development priority. Increased attention from governments, NGOs, academic institutes and donors is being accompanied by new calls to strengthen national Governments to coordinate, regulate, and in some cases implement social protection programmes at scale. In order to take up this role, there is increased recognition of the need to strategically locate social protection leadership with the appropriate Government ministry to maximize effectiveness. However,…