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The State of Funding for Children in SADC is a report that investigates the status of resources that are earmarked for children in southern Africa. Commissioned by RIATT-ESA, the study is premised on the understanding that beyond the ratifications of international and regional child rights instruments, as well as promulgation of impeccable laws, realization of children’s rights will not be actualized until adequate resources are availed. The study also appreciates that it is the incumbency of the child rights sector to lobby governments for increased fiscal space so that adequate resources…
Executive Summary
All children have a fundamental right to protection, but the needs of children in emergencies are far from being met. In 2018, almost 50 million children were in need of protection in humanitarian settings. Yet child protection isn’t systematically prioritised when a humanitarian response is being mobilised, and it remains both underfunded and untimely where children’s lives are at risk. During a crisis, children are among the most vulnerable, exposed to life-threatening risks, extreme violence, abuse, physical and sexual exploitation, abduction or military…
In 2002, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights published its first Status Report on India’s Children titled “Children in Globalising India: Challenging Our Conscience”. This report, which is also the fifth in the series, reflects on how children and the realisation of their rights continue to challenge our conscience even today. The first status report was an edited volume and so is this one. This report includes chapters on child protection in India, children with disabilities, children's participation, and more.
The chapter on child protection (chapter 4) provides an overview and history of child…
Introduction
Children placed in institutional care are deprived of their fundamental right to living in a family environment. The Romanian state would greatly improve their situation, if it took care of preventing the separation of children from their family, instead of focusing on the current model - placing in care about 63,000 children, while hundreds of thousands of them still live in inhumane conditions. These are the ones that specialised public authorities pretend they do not see, because they lack the capacity for legislative framework design to prevent the separation of…
This report, which was authored by Taylor Fry with support from Their Futures Matter (TFM) - a landmark reform of the Government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia to deliver improved outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and their families - and stakeholder agencies, presents key results and insights from the TFM Investment Model, an actuarial model of future outcomes and costs of providing key government services to children and young people in NSW.
The purpose of the report is to define groups of vulnerable children and young people and highlight the poor social outcomes…
The context:
Numerous studies have highlighted that in Europe people with care experience are amongst the most socially excluded groups and are at greater risk of poor outcomes in education, health, employment, criminality, mental health and social functioning in general as compared to the wider population.
Leaving the formal alternative care system is an important phase for both young people and the service providers responsible for their care and development. All the efforts and investments made throughout the child’s alternative care path risk being rendered futile if the preparation…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As part of its Waiver strategy, New York City reduced caseworker caseloads within the network of private agencies that provide foster care services on behalf of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), with the expectation that doing so would expedite permanency.
For the evaluation, we asked whether the rate of exit to permanency increased for children whose time in care coincided with when private agencies reached the new caseload target.
In sum, we found that exit rates increased by 9 percent in the years following implementation of the caseload…
Background
The number of children and young people experiencing serious issues in Australia, including placement in out of home care, is alarming and increasing.
The purpose of this report is to:
- reveal how much Australian governments spend every year because children and young people have reached crisis point
- highlight the opportunity of earlier and wiser investment in children to improve the lives of young Australians while reducing pressure on government budgets.
The PEPFAR Uganda Interagency Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Portfolio Review and Cost Analysis was conducted in November 2015. The purpose of the review is to provide evidence to support planning that will maximize the impact of the PEPFAR Uganda OVC portfolio. To this end, the report:
- Identifies and describes the implementation approaches within the PEPFAR Uganda OVC portfolio, indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each model with respect to their capacity to achieve intended outcomes;
- Provides a cost analysis of the various implementation models,…
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…