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This webinar series, by and for members of Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, brings together experts from the community to discuss a range of relevant topics identified by members as priorities for learning and exchange. View webinar recordings below.
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Background
A year has passed since COVID-19 began disrupting systems. Although children are not considered a risk population for the virus, there is accumulating knowledge regarding children's escalating risk for maltreatment during the pandemic.
Objective
The current study is part of a larger initiative using an international platform to examine child maltreatment (CM) reports and child protective service (CPS) responses in various countries. The first data collection, which included a comparison between eight countries after the pandemic's first wave (March–June 2020), illustrated…
Understanding the risks and responses to children’s caregiving environment during COVID-19 remains limited. This is especially the case in humanitarian settings. This brief, therefore, aims to report what is known so far during the pandemic. The brief focuses on strategies to strengthen the caregiving environment through family- and community-based approaches. It also offers a series of case studies from various humanitarian and emergency contexts.
Summary
Among the more than 760,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are parents, custodial grandparents, or other caregivers on whom children had relied for financial, emotional, and developmental support. Many of these children already faced significant social and economic adversity, and these devastating losses can impact their development and success for the rest of their lives. In a report written with the COVID Collaborative, we estimate the number of children who lost a parent or other caregiver to COVID-19 and provide concrete recommendations for urgent actions to protect…
Background:
In France, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a general lockdown from mid-March to mid-May 2020, forcing families to remain confined. We hypothesized that children may have been victims of more physical abuse during the lockdown, involving an increase in the relative frequency of hospitalization.
Methods:
Using the national administrative database on all admissions to public and private hospitals (PMSI), we selected all children aged 0–5 years hospitalized and identified physically abused children based on ICD-10 codes. We included 844,227 children…
The purpose of this evidence synthesis is to analyze the primary and secondary impacts of the pandemic on children who are refugees, IDPs and/or migrants and highlights important protective factors and emerging response measures identified in a review of recent news media, project reporting, academic research and other relevant resources mapped over the previous five-month period. The rest of this synthesis is organized in the following way: child participation barriers and opportunities are illustrated by using examples from select articles and research studies, key emerging…
Caregiver death increases risks of short-term trauma and lifelong adverse consequences for children. One micro-simulation research letter estimated parental deaths in the U.S. to Feb 2021. A global study aggregated COVID-associated orphanhood and co-resident caregiver deaths across 21 countries.
This report captures overall and U.S. state-specific findings, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, for COVID-19-associated orphanhood and death of grandparent caregivers. High rates of orphanhood, marked disparities, and state-specific differences show the overlooked burden among children at…
As child protection and family welfare become increasingly central to the global community of policymakers and practitioners seeking to encourage an optimal care environment for children’s development and well-being , key learning gaps remain concerning the best ways to support children who are without adequate parental or family care or who are at risk of becoming so. In an effort to strengthen the evidence base around the best ways to improve care for children and to reinforce global capacity to utilize this evidence, the Better Care Network, the Child Protection in Crisis Learning Network…
More than 10.5 million children have lost one or both parents during the coronavirus pandemic — nearly double the previous estimates — according to data released Tuesday.
Southeast Asia and Africa suffered the greatest rate of losses, with one out of every 50 children affected compared with one out of 150 children in the Americas, according to the research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Among the countries with the highest rates of parent and caregiver deaths are Bolivia, Peru,…
With public health leaders convening in Geneva this week for the annual World Health Assembly, there couldn’t be a better moment to reckon with the glaring disparities between the global haves and have-nots that have been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inequitable access to vaccines and therapeutics, poor public health messaging, and inadequate health care systems are just a few of the issues they’ll need to grapple with as they chart our way out of the pandemic and into a brighter future. And there couldn’t be a better time than now to hold these discussions. Because a…