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For the approximately 760,000 children in alternative care in the European Union, the European Child Guarantee is a crucial opportunity to measure progress on deinstitutionalisation and the transition to community and family-based care. In doing so, it can catalyse reform and meaningful improvement of the lives and prospects of one of Europe’s most disadvantaged groups of children.
With Eurochild and UNICEF’s newly published policy brief, Children in alternative care in the Child Guarantee National…
Eurochild is celebrating the new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, published on 24 March 2021, a comprehensive and ambitious Strategy that represents a strong focus on the human rights of children and was developed with children. A child-friendly version was also launched informing children of how this Strategy aims to protect and promote the rights of every child in the EU.
The Strategy acknowledges the dominant threats and challenges that children’s rights face today, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, digital security, violence, poverty and social exclusion, and mental health. It…
This policy brief has been developed to serve as a guidance to practitioners while developing any practice on leaving care. It aims to stimulate further discussion amongst practitioners and reach a common professional consensus on formalised guidelines towards leaving care at global, national and local levels.
It is based on the deliberations of the “1st International Care Leavers Convention 2020” (ICLC) held from November 23-25, 2020, with a concluding session held on December 11, 2020 with policy makers from 9 countries. The ICLC also had a series of four pre-events that focused on…
This policy brief has been developed to serve as a guidance to policy makers while developing any policy on leaving care. It aims to stimulate further discussion amongst policy makers and reach a common professional consensus on formalised guidelines towards leaving care at global, national and local levels.
It is based on the deliberations of the “1st International Care Leavers Convention 2020” (ICLC) held from November 23-25, 2020, with a concluding session held on December 11, 2020 with policy makers from 9 countries. The ICLC also had a series of four pre-events that focused on…
This UN brief examines the COVID-19 pandemic's threats to food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world and suggests three mutually reinforcing sets of priority actions to address the immediate, near- and medium-term needs to protect people during and beyond the crisis, and – ultimately – to reshape and build resilient food systems:
- First, mobilize to save lives and livelihoods, focusing attention where the risk is most acute.
- Second, strengthen social protection systems for nutrition.
- Third, invest in a sustainable future…
The world is rapidly changing. Families, and the role of women and girls within them, are also changing. Today, there is no ‘standard’ family form, nor has there ever been. In order for laws and policies to support families and meet the needs of all their members, they must evolve and adapt. Progress of the World’s Women assesses the scale and scope of transformations in family life, and their implications for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Drawing on the best available data from around the world, this Report proposes a comprehensive agenda for key policy actors – including…
Living in unstable long-term government-supported ‘out-of-home’ care (OOHC) is causing harmful and often lifelong impacts for increasing numbers of Australian children. There is a growing awareness that all children need stable homes and families to thrive. This has led to policymakers facing mounting calls from adoption advocates (myself included) to increase the number of ‘open adoptions’* from out of care in Australia.
The difficulties in giving more children safe and permanent homes through adoption led the Federal Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs to…
This advocacy brief from SPOON Foundation notes that successful nutrition interventions are not reaching the children who are at highest risk, including children without family care and children with disabilities, and outlines four key actions that can help to ensure that children without family care and children with disabilities have opportunities to grow and thrive.
The brief concludes with a call to action for governments, program implementers and researchers, global policymakers, funders, and advocates.
This brief identifies the steps necessary to realize an integrated system of care, reviews two current approaches, and makes recommendations—including specifying policy reforms that would promote interagency collaboration, integration, service delivery, and improved outcomes for California’s children, both with and without disabilities. As a full commitment from the state administration is necessary to realize the proposed solutions at scale, this brief recommends the formation of a statewide interagency leadership council that has legitimacy, decision-making authority, and accountability…
This collection of resources from UNICEF includes a call to action, policy brief, and evidence briefs focused on investing in family-friendly policies in the workplace. In the Call to Action, UNICEF calls on governments and businesses to redesign the workplaces of the future, to enable parents to give their children the best start in life, while boosting productivity and women’s empowerment. Recommendations include:
- Sufficient paid leave to all parents and guardians, in both the formal and informal economies, to meet the needs of their young children. This includes paid…