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We are facing an education emergency. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 1.6 billion learners were out of school. For the first time in human history, an entire global generation has had their education disrupted. And we know from previous crises that the longer children are out of school, the greater the risk that they do not return – over nine million children could miss out on education for good.
New analysis in this global report shows how COVID-19 may impact the funding of education, as well as the countries most at risk of falling behind.…
CCAI’s Foster Youth Internship Program® is a highly esteemed congressional internship for young adults who spent their formative years in the U.S. foster care system. In their annual policy report, the interns focus on subjects they are personally passionate about due to their experiences and understanding after living in foster care and make personal recommendations for improving the U.S. foster care system. This report is presented at both congressional and White House briefings. This publication includes policy reports on sibling connections, supporting foster parents, placement…
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…
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In Australia, young people up to 18 years who are unable to live with their birth families are placed in different forms of out-of-home care, including kinship care, foster care, residential care, family group homes, and independent living. People who spent time in out-of-home care before the age of 18 are subsequently referred to as care leavers when they transition out of the system. Care leavers rarely transition to higher education. They are largely excluded from the level of education that brings the highest wage premiums and lifetime rewards. Despite their…
The ChildSafe network has produced important information for people who might be traveling abroad and be confronted by situations where children are in distress or at risk of being abused or harmed. An international network managed by Friends International , it consists of local and international people, businesses and groups that protect children from abuse and prevent them from being placed in abusive situations.
Called 7 Better Ways to Help Protect Children Around the World, the leaflet and online information provides 7…
A great change is coming over childhood in the world’s richest countries. Today’s rising generation is the first in which a majority is spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. At the same time, neuroscientific research is demonstrating that loving, stable, secure, and stimulating relationships with caregivers in the earliest months and years of life are critical for every aspect of a child’s development. Taken together, these two developments confront public and policymakers in OECD countries with urgent questions. Whether the child care…
International human rights declarations such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child address children’s rights to food, shelter, nationality, education, health, and freedom from torture, sexual violence, and exploitation. The conditions of life of street children are a violation of these human rights.
In medicine, patients who present with life-threatening behaviors are treated with prevention counseling, pharmacotherapy, and environmental modification. The medical community accepts the obligation to treat. For the medical community to accept responsibility for caring for children of…