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Children living in families and within alternative care can and do experience traumatic events. These can be caused by violence, illness, parental death, natural or human made disasters, and separation. The COVID-19 pandemic and the changes, losses, and stressors it has caused is one more reminder of the difficulties that face children in all corners of the world. Understanding how trauma can impact the brain and affect emotional and physical development is of critical importance for…
The High-Level Session on ‘Advancing the Early Childhood Agenda: High Level Session towards a Global Partnership Strategy’, organized by UNESCO, took place on 28 January 2021 under the leadership of the UNESCO Assistant Director General for Education and Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien. It was organized as a follow up to the technical Session held on 16 December 2020, which aimed to stimulate discussion and collect experts’ inputs on key enabling factors to advance the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)/Early Childhood Development (ECD) agenda for the preparation of the…
Este evento paralelo del Consejo de Derechos Humanos fue patronicinado por las Misiones Permanentes de Kenya, Portugal, Uruguay y Vietnam, African Child Policy Forum, ATD 4th World, Better Care Network, CELCIS, Family for Every Child, For Our Children Foundation, Hope and Homes for Children, International Federation of Social Workers, International Foster Care Organisation, International Social Service, RELAF, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International y UNICEF. El evento paralelo el evento se llevó a cabo el 22 de septiembre 2015 y asistieron más de 40…
This Human Rights Council Side event was co-sponsored by Permanent Missions of Kenya, Portugal, Uruguay and Viet Nam, African Child Policy Forum, ATD 4th World, Better Care Network, CELCIS, Family for Every Child, For Our Children Foundation, Hope and Homes for Children, International Federation of Social Workers, International Foster Care Organisation, International Social Service, RELAF, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International and UNICEF. The side event was held on 22 September 2015 and was attended by over 40 participants from different Missions including USA, Canada,…
In November 2012, more than 130 policymakers, academics, practitioners and other experts committed to CP systems and coming from 50 countries met in New Delhi over four days for a major conference entitled “A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Protection Systems.” This conference was co-hosted by four organisations – UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children and World Vision. The report from the conference encapsulates the substantive content of the presentations and related discussion; provides an analysis and documents the journey;…
The Neglected Agenda: Protecting Children without Adequate Parental Care Conference took place at Wilton Park, an academically independent and non-profit-making Executive Agency of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Save the Children, together with UNICEF and the Better Care Network, brought together leaders from Governments, bi-lateral donors, international agencies, private foundations, and academia to explore the challenges and opportunities in protecting children without adequate parental care.
On the 24th September Better Care Network and the CPC Learning Network organized a one day symposium entitled The State of the Evidence on Children’s Care at McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University.
The symposium topics were clustered around three specific areas of issues related to children’s care:
- Efforts to measure trends in families and children’s care and living arrangements;
- Initiatives to measure the impact of policies and programs to strengthen families and to…
Udayan Care invites you to their 4th in the series ICB's journal webinar.
- Date: September 29, 2022
- Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. IST | 7 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. EST
Time: 7 a.m. Guatemala / 9 a.m. EDT / 2 p.m. UK / 4 p.m. Kenya / 6:30 p.m. India
To mark the launch of the ‘Separated Childhoods’ themed edition of Global Studies of Childhood, these organisations are hosting a series of three webinars that explore some of the themes highlighted in the featured articles. The aim of the themed edition was to create the space to gather and share new findings about separated childhoods from around the world, centring on the voices of those with lived experience of separation and on the practical experiences of social service…
You are warmly invited to the launch of an exciting new manual for practitioners on how to engage children and young people throughout care reform. Building on ten years’ experience, this practical manual was designed for practitioners and service managers who want to build their knowledge and skills on meaningful participation. The manual was co-produced by Lumos, Changing the Way We Care and youth-advocates from around the world. At this interactive launch event you will hear from the youth advocates and those who developed the manual on innovative approaches to involving children and…