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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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Supervision Guideline for Pusat Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK)/Child Family Support Centre Social Workers in Working with Children and Families
Case manager social work supervision is a designated interaction between two or more case managers, within a safe and supportive environment, which enables a process of reflective, critical analysis of service provision, to ensure quality care and service
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The Frontrunner of Chaon: Improving the lives of children in cotton growing districts of Pakistan
Save the Children implemented a child rights program, titled as CHAON “Children's Action against Oppression and Neglect” in 200 villages of Muzaffargarh (Punjab) and 150 villages of Sanghar (Sindh) from 2009 to 2014. This Program was implemented with the
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Working to End Violence Against Children: Save the Children's Child Protection 2016-18 Thematic Plan
Save the Children's child protection thematic plan for 2016-2018 presents Save the Children's goals and targets to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contributions to Save the Children's 2030 breakthroughs: No child dies from preventable
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Save the Children's Child Protection Video
The Child Protection Initiative has produced an animated video that communicates Save the Children's child protection work and the impact on children's lives as seen by children. "Violence against children is no longer tolerated" is the new Global Breakth
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Working to End Violence Against Children in Asia & Pacific: Fact sheet
This fact sheet provides a short overview of Save the Children’s work in Asia and the Pacific, including the countries: China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and Japan. Save the Children is leading programmes on Appropriate Care, which work with familie
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Schools that Care: A review of linkages between children's education and care
This study explores the under-recognized link between education and children’s care. The evidence carried out in this study – a literature review and informant interviews – suggest that a lack of access to quality education is a key cause of inadequate ca
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Children and Unsafe Migration in Europe: Data and policy, understanding the evidence base
The IOM created the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in response to growing calls for better data on migration, and better use and presentation of migration data. The GMDAC regularly produces data briefings on its latest findings on global m
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Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States
Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States shares the obstacles and dangers that children and adolescents face as they journey to the United States. UNICEF reports that in the first six months of 2016, almost 26,000
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Kinship Care Research: Save the Children, Tulinde Watoto Wetu
This participatory research confirms that kinship care is widely practiced in many Kenyan communities as noted through the participatory engagement with communities in Busia County. Cultural practices and ways of life in many communities placed a high val
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A Sense of Belonging: Understanding and improving informal alternative care mechanisms to increase the care and protection of children, with a focus on kinship care in East Africa
Building upon a Save the Children regional participatory research initiative on kinship care that was undertaken in West Central Africa in 2012 – 2013, Save the Children’s East Africa Regional Office supported a similar process in East Africa, which resul
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Children on the Move: Mancala, the Game of Moving
Children on the move are those children moving for a variety of reasons, voluntary or involuntary within or between countries, with or without their parents or other primary caregivers, and whose movement, while opening opportunities, might place them at
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Jozi Lights: How to protect children engaging in rural to urban migration
By the late 2030s, Africa is set to become a continent with more of its population living in urban than rural areas. Not only do population growth trends in Africa suggest that the sizes of those urban populations will be substantial (by 2100, almost half