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First Years First Priority is a Europe-wide campaign set up to advocate for prioritization of early childhood development in public policies, with a particular focus on families and children who are at greater risk of discrimination and exclusion. This briefing provides a description of the policy context in which the 'First Year, First Priority' campaign is launched. It aims to explain:
- Why is the 'First Years, First Priority' campaign needed?
- What problems does the campaign seek to address and what solutions is it advocating for?
- How does the…
Pregnancy through age three is the most critical period for children’s development. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic has battered working parents of young children, with what are likely to be significant and long-lasting negative consequences. In this brief, the authors propose a set of enhanced Infant-Toddler policies—in the areas of income support, child care, and paid family leave—to better support these families and improve their children’s long-term health and wellbeing.
Overview
This brief summarizes actions that programme planners and implementers should take to minimize the impact that emergencies have on the lives of young children and their families. It calls upon all relevant stakeholders to invest in evidence-based policies and interventions that have been shown to build resilience and mitigate the harmful effects of emergencies.
This thematic policy brief aims to seek and secure commitment from regional and national leaders to urgently prioritize and invest consistently in the protection of girls, who are disproportionately exposed to multitude forms of violence and their devastating consequences. It provides evidence and raises concerns of girls’ vulnerability to combined and complex risks that are further intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief is primarily intended for regional policy-makers and duty-bearers responsible for regulating, planning and resourcing protection of all children. It offers a set…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous tragedy and disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of children and their families in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Despite significant responses by governments and the heroic efforts of medical staff and other key workers, this global societal emergency has taught us several costly lessons.
Hospitals in many countries have been overwhelmed. Efforts to provide cash benefits to impoverished households or shift education and jobs online have helped many people – but such solutions remain inaccessible to millions of poor, socially marginalised…
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest shocks to global stability since World War II. Before the pandemic, more than half of all children worldwide lived in daily exposure to different forms of violence. The measures to contain and respond to the pandemic have further increased the risks of physical, sexual and emotional violence against girls, boys and children with different gender identities.
While risks have increased, the capacity of formal and informal child protection systems to respond have been limited. The services to prevent, report, respond, care and support have been…
Executive Statement
The number of residential care institutions (RCIs) in Uganda increased during the past 20 years. As more institutions have been established, issues regarding the quality of care received by children have risen. RCIs are not only characterised as being overcrowded and unhygienic but have also been accused of failing to ensure their primary role of protecting vulnerable children. RCIs have also been characterised by sexual, physical, and verbal abuse from both caregivers and other children. This calls for regular supervision and monitoring of existing RCIs as well as…
Abstract
This review of the 91 English children's services departments with specific policies on bruising in premobile children found a major disjuncture between research evidence and its interpretation in guidance. Many policies require all premobile children found with a bruise to be seen urgently by a paediatrician, and in some, all bruised children are subject of a formal child protection investigation regardless of the explanations for the bruise or the views of front‐line practitioners. However, the research on bruises in premobile children on which these policies were based was…
This policy brief from Better Care Network explains the effects and risk factors associated with experiencing violence in childhood, including life-long physical, cognitive, social, and emotional health problems. The brief also points to recent evidence which shows that removing a child from an abusive home and placing them into alternative care does not always mean an end to violence against children and that children removed from the home and placed into alternative care often face an increased risk of exposure to violence, with younger children and children with disabilities being…
Introduction
The following pages discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can reach children without parental care. Although there is no precise statistical data on these children, there are estimates that approximately 220 million children are growing up without parental care – ten percent of the world’s child population. This figure includes children who have lost or are at risk of losing parental care and live in extremely vulnerable circumstances where they lack adequate care and protection.
Children without parental care are disproportionately…