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Make Childcare Work: Three steps to improving childcare support in Universal Credit
Investing in the childcare support offered through Universal Credit is a critical way to remove the barriers holding parents and children back. It has real potential to increase parental employment by targeting support for those most likely to be out of w
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Are the World's Richest Countries Family Friendly? Policy in the OECD and EU
Children get a better start in life and parents are better able to balance work and home commitments in countries that have family-friendly policies. These include paid parental leave, support for breastfeeding and affordable, high-quality childcare and p
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Essential Newborn Care Practice at Four Primary Health Facilities in Conflict-affected Areas of Bossaso, Somalia: a cross-sectional study
Newborn mortality is increasingly concentrated in contexts of conflict and political instability. However, there are limited guidelines and data on the availability and quality of newborn care in conflict settings. In 2016, an interagency collaboration de
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A Bright Start: Improving childcare for disadvantaged families through Universal Credit
Support for childcare costs is different in each nation of the UK, resulting in a complex mix of reserved and devolved policies – evidence and data sources on children’s early learning, childcare needs, provision and usage also vary in each nation. This r
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Guidelines to Child Care Reform Implementation
These guidelines are intended for technical staff working in child protection, specifically, those focusing on family strengthening, alternative care of children, and child rights governance, in middle-income countries. The guidelines have been developed
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Untapped Potential: How England's nursery lottery is failing too many children
Save the Children believes that if the British government is to deliver on this aim to significantly improve social mobility in England, it must guarantee every child not just a good school place, but a good nursery place too. The evidence for this is cle
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Women's Work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis
This publication highlights the hidden crisis the world is facing in childcare. Written by The Overseas Development Institute, the report identifies the severe shortcomings of current early childhood care and education programming in meeting the needs of
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Struggling to Survive: Stories from Yemen's collapsing health system
Every ten minutes, one Yemeni child dies from preventable causes like diarrhea, malnutrition, and respiratory tract infection. Yemen's children are at the heart of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Ten million children are in urgent need of assistan
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Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children’s Care in Ghana: LEAP and its effects on child well-being, care, and family cohesion
Despite most national governments ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the following Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children, evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suggests that the rights to adequate care are being violated in th
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Child Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe: A matter of children’s rights
Europe’s current economic, financial and social crisis is creating an increase in relative and absolute child poverty and social exclusion across the continent. Even in countries that have experienced economic growth in recent years, not everyone has a sh
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Implementation of the national strategy and action plan for the reform of the residential childcare system in Moldova 2007-2012: Evaluation report
In July 2007 the Government of Moldova approved a National Strategy and Action Plan to reform its residential childcare system. At the time, 12,000 children were thought to be living in large orphanages and boarding schools in Moldova. Previous studies ha
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Consultation on Improving Measurement of the Quality of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Care in Health Facilities
In 2012, a meeting was convened by the World Health Organisation with the aim to achieve a consensus on core indicators for global measurement and reporting on the quality of care provided for mothers, newborns, and children in health facilities that coul