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Sixteen NGOs with expertise in child protection, disability inclusion and human rights call on the Government of Ukraine and its international partners to implement these key recommendations on the development of an inclusive child protection and care system.
These recommendations have been endorsed by the following organisations and networks:
- A Family for Every Orphan
- Better Care Network
- Disability Rights International
- Eurochild
- Family for Every Child
- Global Social Service…
The Swedish Presidency has initiated a declaration to support the protection of Ukrainian children. The declaration will mobilise support among EU Member States for continued engagement in protecting the children who have been affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The declaration also urges the European Commission to continue prioritising the reconstruction and reform of Ukraine’s child protection system. At the meeting, a large number of Member States signed the declaration.
Eurochild stands alongside 14 other NGOs to call on the international community to protect all children, from Ukraine and beyond
A year has passed since the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, which has affected and displaced millions of children. Despite the international community’s repeated calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the plight of children and young people caught in this atrocious war remain, with little end in sight.
Children are among the most vulnerable in times of war, with their fundamental rights consistently…
These advocacy messages have been developed to support advocacy efforts conducted by Alliance members and wider humanitarian actors responding to and working on the Ukraine crisis response. The global subgroup on Children's Care and Ukraine, which is co-led by the Alliance's Unaccompanied and Separated Children Task Force (UASC) and the Global Collaborative Platform on Transforming Children's Care, developed the messaging for the UASC section.
Raising awareness of disability, disability inclusion and the rights of children with disabilities are key parts of the care reform processes in all countries. Through influencing those who currently operate, fund, support or develop policies around the residential care facilities (sometimes called institutions, children’s homes or orphanages) we can ensure that children with disabilities are not left behind. The policy makers with responsibility for systems of care and protection, providers of services for children, families and communities all may stigmatize or discriminate against families…
This guidance specifically refers to mapping of services as the process of locating and sharing information to a wide range of people about available services to support children with disabilities and their families.
The mapping of services and resources to support inclusion of children with disabilities involves finding out what services and resources are available, their quality and their accessibility. By creating this type of listing, social workers, other professionals working with children/families and families themselves know where they can go to…
This is a presentation for a half-day workshop on participation and self-advocacy approaches for working with children with disabilities and their families; includes slides, facilitation notes and a sample list of country-specific disability rights.
The target audience are family strengthening and care reform practitioners or residential care facilities to promote disability inclusion in family strengthening or care reform
Use this workshop package to build staff capacity to meaningfully promote participation of children with disabilities in care reform activities; this package may also…
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), in collaboration with the Scottish Child Law Centre, has produced a resource to support Scottish solicitors and practitioners with Good Practice Principles when representing care experienced children in police custody, to ensure their rights are upheld.
Children with care experience are more likely than their peers to experience police contact and criminalisation, despite no evidence that they commit greater offences than other children. They are less likely to receive support at the police station from family or a responsible…
In April 2021, the Child Welfare League of Canada (CWLC), in partnership with the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, led a series of cross-sectoral convenings with the goal of introducing a positive obligation for government and service providers to assist families who are experiencing difficulties in a context of poverty. This three-day event convened people across sectors to gain a better understanding of how the child welfare system responds to the conditions that place families at an increased risk of child protection involvement due to assessments of ‘neglect’. The goal of Beyond…
In this paper, the authors present the evidence on why childcare matters for building human capital, look at the current status of childcare provision worldwide, including an estimate of the global gaps in access, and present specific actions countries can take to expand access to quality, affordable childcare for all families that need it, especially the most vulnerable. This paper was originally drafted prior to the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and has been updated to include new content, taking into account the unique challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic poses for families,…