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This manifesto calls on the Council of the EU and its Member States to be ambitious in the implementation the European Pillar of Social Rights, to adopt the Child Guarantee Council Recommendation as a matter of priority, and to ensure that the Child Guarantee starts being implemented six months from the adoption of the Recommendation.
ABSTRACT
The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care. Ending this harm will only be achieved when the forcible surveillance and separation of children from their parents is no longer viewed as an acceptable form of intervention. This paper describes the upEND movement, a collaborative movement aimed at abolishing the child welfare system as we know it and reimagining how we as a society support child, family, and community safety and well-…
Children in Yemen are facing a daily struggle to survive in what is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. After five years of conflict, around four in five children – 12.3 million – are in desperate need of aid. Tens of thousands of children have died, both as a direct result of the fighting, and from indirect causes like disease and malnutrition. More than 1.7 million children have been forced to flee their homes and are living in camps or improvised settings in other parts of Yemen. Devastating food and cholera crises emerged during the conflict; while violence persistently blights lives,…
This paper from Just for Kids Law (JfKL) explores an issue that the organization has come across through their work: cases of under 18s (mainly 16- and 17-year olds) in the UK who are facing homelessness and do not receive the support they are entitled to from local authority children’s services. "This legal technicality gives local authorities a loophole to provide a bare minimum of support to children who are extremely vulnerable, rather than the care they would receive as a looked after child," says the paper.
The paper presents case studies and presents findings from …
Who We Are
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work have collaborated to create the upEND movement, a grassroots advocacy network designed to tap into work already being done and spark new work that will ultimately create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.
Why We Need Change
Racism is deeply rooted in child welfare systems’ history, policies, and practices. But despite significant and frequent reform efforts, it has…
Introduction
This paper urges the government and nation to give effect to long-standing Kaupapa Māori models for developing the new required evaluation measures aimed at reducing the disparities for Māori children and young persons who come to the attention of Oranga Tamariki Ministry for Children. Section 7AA(2)(a) will soon come into force in the recently amended and renamed Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 / Children’s and Young People’s Well-being Act 1989 due to reform measures in 2017. This provision, which is effective from July 2019, has great potential to change care and protection…
Introduction
The following pages discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can reach children without parental care. Although there is no precise statistical data on these children, there are estimates that approximately 220 million children are growing up without parental care – ten percent of the world’s child population. This figure includes children who have lost or are at risk of losing parental care and live in extremely vulnerable circumstances where they lack adequate care and protection.
Children without parental care are disproportionately…
This policy report from Kids Count outlines the impacts that parental incarceration has on children, and on communities as a whole, particularly in the context of mass incarceration in the United States. The report includes data on individual states in the US and highlights data on parental incarceration and its impacts on three cities: Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Providence. The report describes the financial toll that parental incarceration can have on children and families, as well as the social and emotional toll that it has on children and parents, particularly as it threatens family…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) has published its findings from an extensive examination of Canada’s policy of placing aboriginal children in residential schools, removing the children from their families and communities. In its examination, the TRC has determined the actions of the Canadian government to constitute cultural genocide. “Canada separated children from their parents, sending them to residential schools," says the report. “This was done not to educate them, but primarily to break their link to their culture and identity.” In this executive summary, the TRC…
This document, published by Catholic Relief Services, urges members of the Catholic faith community to consider the best interests of the child when partnering, or “twinning” with parishes in Haiti and undertaking charitable activities. “Twinning,” says the report is the practice of Catholic congregations, or parishes, in the United States partnering with parishes in Haiti and providing support, money, resources, and volunteers to those parishes. These activities often include directing resources toward children in orphanages in Haiti. The problem with this support, says Catholic Relief…