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This collection of resources from UNICEF includes a call to action, policy brief, and evidence briefs focused on investing in family-friendly policies in the workplace. In the Call to Action, UNICEF calls on governments and businesses to redesign the workplaces of the future, to enable parents to give their children the best start in life, while boosting productivity and women’s empowerment. Recommendations include:
- Sufficient paid leave to all parents and guardians, in both the formal and informal economies, to meet the needs of their young children. This includes paid…
Children with incarcerated parents and children in foster care, who come disproportionately from poor and minority households, face many threats to their healthy development and lifelong wellbeing. In this brief, John H. Laub and Ron Haskins suggest a number of policies that could help these children. For children with incarcerated parents, they call for expanding the use of alternatives to incarceration; making it easier and less traumatic for children to visit their incarcerated parents; and creating school- and community-based programs to help them overcome the challenges they face. For…
On Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released the latest volume of “The Future of Children”—a journal that promotes effective, evidence-based policies and programs for children, along with a policy brief titled “Achieving Broad-Scale Impacts for Social Programs.” This volume, titled “Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development,” explores universal social programs designed to serve entire…
Abstract
To make a serious dent in the [US] social and health problems, the child welfare system— and others—must develop strategies that have broad impact on people and contexts. That is, they must seek to make a difference at the level of entire populations, rather than targeting only the individuals and families at highest risk. In this brief from Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development, Ron Haskins,…
The provision of child protection services varies considerably across the world. This paper offers a broad overview of some of the main approaches to child protection used internationally. Using examples from Canada, Sweden, Belgium and the Gaza Strip, it offers policy-makers the chance to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, as well as how these examples might be used to inspire improvements within the Australian context.
Resumen ejecutivo
El cuidado institucional es perjudicial para los niños.
Décadas de investigaciones comprueban que el crecimiento de un niño en una institución posee un impacto nocivo en cuanto a lo psicológico, lo emocional y lo físico, incluyendo trastornos de vinculación, retrasos cognitivos y en el desarrollo, y una falta de capacidades sociales y para la vida que luego concluyen en múltiples desventajas durante la adultez.
Se ha documentado un catálogo de violaciones a los derechos de los niños en relación al cuidado…
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…
This brief from SNAICC – National Voice for our Children highlights the issue of the disproportional numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care in Australia, which has reached "national crisis proportions," and outlines key steps that need to be taken to address this issue.
This briefing tells the anonymised stories of four children and young people who have been criminalised in residential care in their own words.
The briefing focuses on how it feels to a child to be criminalised and to live in a home where you are not loved or cared about
The young people’s testimonies illustrate how every aspect of the care system can impact on criminalisation and demonstrate that a whole system approach is needed to protect vulnerable children from this form of harm.
Read Briefing One here.…
Executive Summary
This report examines the challenging relationship between Islam and fostering and adoption in the UK, and efforts currently being made to address it. Through an analysis of extant literature and data from a small-scale pilot study based on interviews with foster care agencies, this report firstly explains why an influx of immigrant children and a growing local Muslim population mean that it is important to focus on fostering and adoption in Muslim communities. It then considers the need for research in this area to look specifically at religion, before subsequently…