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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have predicted that the social and economic effects of the ongoing pandemic will have a significant impact on the well-being of families with children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, children and adolescents were already a highly vulnerable population group, suffering a higher incidence of poverty than other age groups and affected by numerous inequalities in various dimensions. Not only does the current emergency threaten…
Report motivation and objectives
This report critically reviews the case for universal child benefits (UCBs). It seeks to contribute to a burgeoning and lively debate on the (potential) role of UCBs as a policy instrument in the pursuit of child poverty reduction and universal social protection.
Universalism has come to the fore in policy circles with the Agenda 2030 and the related Sustainable Development Goals – and their underlying aspiration to ‘leave no one behind’ (UNGA, 2015). In this agenda, social protection emerges as one of the main tools at governments’ disposal for…
This report from Save the Children calls upon governments, donors and other development partners to urgently support an expansion in social protection coverage of children and their caregivers (predominantly women), working progressively towards UCBs. This would ensure basic income security for children in line with Sustainable Development Goal Target 1.3, which aims to establish social protection floors in all countries by 2030.
This report sets out eight reasons why governments should consider working towards universal rather than targeted coverage of children. These span economic and…
This report from Save the Children calls upon governments, donors and other development partners to urgently support an expansion in social protection coverage of children and their caregivers (predominantly women), working progressively towards UCBs. This would ensure basic income security for children in line with Sustainable Development Goal Target 1.3, which aims to establish social protection floors in all countries by 2030.
This report sets out eight reasons why governments should consider working towards universal rather than targeted coverage of children. These span economic and…
Executive Summary
Transitional youth are young people ages 16 to 24 who leave foster care without being adopted or reunited with their biological families and/or who are involved in the juvenile justice system, where they may be in detention or subject to terms of probation. With childhoods often marked by trauma and a lack of stability, transitional youth face notoriously poor outcomes across many areas of life. Compared with their peers, they experience more interactions than average with the criminal justice system; suffer from mental health problems at higher rates; and struggle to…
Consistent and effective implementation of public policy can be challenging, and this is particularly so in relation to services and provisions for Scotland's care leavers.
In response to feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, CELCIS, in association with the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant Alliance, hosted a roundtable workshop and practice exchange discussion on 5 September 2018 for local authorities in their role as Corporate Parents, in the effective and consistent implementation of the…
This paper highlights human resource and funding gaps that constrain provision of child care and protection services. It advocates for strengthening of social welfare workforce and funding to improve child care and protection services. Inadequate funding and staffing has promoted child vulnerability countrywide.
The Day of the African Child is celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, in memory of the student uprising on that day in 1979 in Soweto, South Africa, and raising awareness of the continuing need for improvement in the fulfilment of the education and other rights of African children. This year, it is commemorated on the theme “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for Children in Africa: Accelerating protection, empowerment and equal opportunity”.
This briefing highlights how prohibition of all corporal punishment of children in Africa is…
In this brief article, the authors make their case for extending the age limit for young people to receive care in the foster care system, focusing on the UK and the US.
This policy brief comes from the Future of Children journal - a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution in the United States. The brief outlines the current state of the Child Welfare System in the United States, particularly federal funding to individual states’ child welfare systems. According to the brief, the US federal government provides states more money for foster care and out-of-home placement services than for preventive services and programs that could keep children out of foster care. The…