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This joint memo was issued by a group of European organizations to clearly state their belief that the draft language on community living in the proposed EU Structural Funds Regulations should be amended to enhance the effect and to better advance the rights of children, persons with disabilities, and older people. The memo highlights the need to clarify and improve the text, and why this is necessary in order to uphold the international legal obligations of the EU to promote the right to community living, particularly for children, persons with disabilities, and older people.
Divergent views on how to conceptualize, formulate and deliver social protection continue to draw healthy debate, both in global policy circles as well as within the resource constrained, operational settings of many African and Asian countries. In the midst of these discussions, certain trends in thinking have begun to emerge.
First, social transfers (e.g. cash, food and other in-kind transfers) are a key component of social protection and have a central role in contributing to the protection, care and support of vulnerable children. The predecessor to this advocacy brief (see box at…
It is particularly important for all institutions where children are living to implement the principle of article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, known as "participation". The natural way in which family members talk and listen to each other, and particularly parents listen to their children, cannot easily be replicated in more formal living institutions. Deliberate steps must be taken to ensure that the staff hear and take proper account of the children’s views and respect their rights.
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This issue of Early Childhood Matters has 11 articles:
1. The Challenges of Out of Home Care: Nigel Cantwell Gives suggestions for the best case scenario of out of home care.
2. Young Children in Institutional Care in Europe: Kevin Browne, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Rebecca Johnson, Shihning Chou Emphasizes the need for reducing reliance on institutional care.
3. The State and Aboriginal children in the child welfare system in Canada 19: Cindy Blackstock, Jordan Ann Alderman Discusses the failures…
One of the legacies of the command economy in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (Europe and Central Asia or ECA region) is a social protection system for vulnerable individuals which focuses heavily on institutional care. Universal social protection was provided to families in the form of guaranteed jobs and old-age pensions, as well as child allowances and benefits in kind such as housing, education, and health care. If an individual needed help beyond this level of universal support, an institutional placement was offered where available. Families, in turn were…
Developing effective interventions to mitigate the devastation HIV/AIDS causes among children and families requires giving careful attention to both ends of the epidemic’s spectrum of impacts. It is vitally important to understand the problems on a human scale, what happens to parents, children, and orphans’ guardians. But this perspective, by itself, is not adequate to guide a strategic response to these problems. It is also essential to keep in mind the magnitude and scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its collective impacts. Developing programs that significantly improve the lives of…
This article from the PIA notes that the Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Committee-10 (RJJWC) is set to present a resolution on forging commitments from local government units to support children at risk and children in conflict with the law.