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Childcare
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Where Do Rich Countries Stand on Childcare?
Some of the world’s richest countries were failing to offer comprehensive childcare solutions to all families even before COVID-19. This was in some instances a reflection of the countries policy priorities rather than available resources. The COVID-19 pa
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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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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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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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Big Futures Campaign
In England, too many children are falling behind before they even get to school- this jeopardizes their life chances. Save the Children calls for the government to make sure that nurseries have expert staff they need to help children develop and grow. SCU
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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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Making Decisions for the Better Care of Children: The role of gatekeeping in strengthening family-based care and reforming alternative care systems
Gatekeeping involves making decisions about care in the best interests of children who have lost or are at risk of losing parental care. It is a systematic procedure that aims to ensure that alternative care for children is used only when it is necessary
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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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Institutional Care: The Last Resort (Policy Brief, 2014)
There are at least 2 million vulnerable children worldwide living in poor quality institutional care that is harmful to their physical, social and intellectual development, especially for those children who are under the age of three. A 2009 longitudinal