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Appropriate Care
Millions of children are living without appropriate care for various reasons such as violence and abuse, poverty, conflict, parental illness, HIV and AIDS, disability and humanitarian disasters etc. Many of these children live on the streets, in extended families, in institutions or in unsafe situations at home.
An estimated 8 million vulnerable children around the world live in poor-quality institutional care that is harmful to their physical, social and intellectual development. Yet four out of five of those children have at least one parent alive who, with support, could care for them.
Millions of children are on the move both within and between countries and very little attention is paid to their care and protection at national, regional or international levels. Children on the move, and especially those who move alone, are extremely vulnerable to violence and discrimination.
Save the Children is working to strengthen the capacity of families to care for their children and support the development of family-based alternative care options for children who cannot remain with their families. We work to ensure children have good quality care, nurture and guidance at a physical, emotional, social and psychological level, getting any mental health and psychosocial support needed.
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RecommendedFact sheet- Children without appropriate care
A Save the Children fact sheet looking at key aspects of child protection with special focus on the sub-theme "children without appropriate care", which encompasses children who are not receiving suitable, continuous and quality care, nurture and guidance
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Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners
The Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) was developed by Save the Children Denmark for the Child Protection Initiative, to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. It is aimed at developing
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Reversing Gain: The impact of COVID-19 on education in Syria brief
The briefing note examines the impediments of access to learning caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in northwest Syria, further compounding issues caused by conflict and years of underinvestment in the education sector in Syria. Save the Children surveyed 48
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Guidance for Alternative Care Provision during COVID-19
COVID-19 poses specific challenges and risks to children with regards to appropriate care both at the policy or system level and in work with individual children. This includes the potential temporary need for alternative care when caregivers become ill o
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Child Safe Programming and Safeguarding in Interim Care Centres
This document outlines some of the potential risks children face in Interim Care Centres and suggests how to manage them to ensure that children are as safe as possible.
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Protecting Children in the Context of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe
This report summarizes the outcomes of the focus groups conducted under the project "Protecting Children in the Context of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe", funded by the European Commission and implemented by Save the Children Italy. The mobile
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Atlante Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati in Italia 2018
For the second time, Save the Children has published an "Atlas" on migrant children who arrive alone in Italy. If there is one element that unites all the stories of foreign minors arriving alone in Italy is that of travel. They all confront travel when
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Invisible Wounds: The impact of six years of war on the mental health of Syria's children
For the past six years, children in Syria have been bombed and starved. They have seen their friends and families die before their eyes or buried under the rubble of their homes. They have watched their schools and hospitals destroyed, been denied food, m
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Responding to Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused: WHO clinical guidelines
A study from 2011 estimates that 18% of girls and 8% of boys worldwide have experienced sexual abuse. This constitutes a major public health problem. Health providers, in many cases, are the first line of response for victims of sexual violence. It is cru
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Trainingshandbuch zur Psychologischen Ersten Hilfe für Kinder (PFA)
Published 2017, the German version of the Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) is a condensed psychological first aid training based on the original two-day Psychological First Aid Training for Child Practitioners. It buil
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Case Management and Child and Family Support Center/Pusat Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK)
The purpose of this book is primarily to introduce the PDAK – Pusat Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (Child and Family Support Center). The PDAK was based on the concept of providing a direct response to children and families experiencing challenges in care and
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Children Come First, Intervento in Frontiera: Dossier IV
The general objective of the project "Children Come First: Intervention at the border" is to strengthen the system of protection and reception of migrant children arriving in Italy, whether they are separated or accompanied by their parents. As part of th