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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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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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Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region: Background paper 2015
In preparation for the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) expert meeting on Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region, May 2015, this background paper was crafted from relevant data and information on family support and alternative
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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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The Child's Right to Quality Care: Review of the implementation of the United Nations guidelines for the alternative care of children in Western Balkan countries
This review of the Implementation of the United Nations Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in the Western Balkan Countries provides information on the capacities and efforts of the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in
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"Yarankowane" Children Belong to Everyone: Nigeria report on Kinship Care
Children without Appropriate Care (CwAC) is a priority area for Save the Children’s child protection work for the period 2010-2015. In working toward this priority, Save the Children embarked on a multi-country participatory research initiative from 2012-
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Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children (2013) Alternative Care in Emergencies Toolkit
A practical interagency resource designed to facilitate alternative care for children during and after an emergency. The Alternative Care in Emergencies (ACE) Toolkit is designed to facilitate interagency planning and implementation of alternative care an
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Save the Children’s Child Protection Strategy 2013-2015: Making the world a safe place for children
In 2009, Save the Children launched the Global Child Protection Initiative (CPI) to strengthen children’s right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. By 2015, Save the Children aims to have improved the lives of 21 million childr
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Literature Review: Jozi Lights- children on the move
This literature review is part of a greater research project on children on the move in Southern Africa, currently being finalised by Save the Children International.
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Save the Children’s Child Protection Strategy 2013-2015:Children Without Appropriate Care
Children without appropriate care (CWAC) is a priority focus area for Save the Children’s child protection work. The CWAC Strategy 2013-2015 outlines the key priorities that Save the Children (SC) aims to achieve by 2015. The overall strategic goal of ca
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Day of General Discussion: “The rights of all children in the context of international migration”. Speech by Lena Karlsson, Director, Child Protection Initiative
Ms Lena Karlsson, Director of Save the Children's Child Protection Initiative, presented the section 'Global Overview of case studies on specific challenges faced by children in international migration situations and successful approaches for addressing t
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Transnational Coordination Mechanisms for the Protection of Children on the Move in the Context of International Migration and the Fulfilment of their Human Rights. Submission by Save the Children
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) dedicates annually one Day of General Discussion (DGD) to a specific article of the Convention on the Rights or to a child-rights issue. This year's discussion is dedicated to the theme of “The Righ
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Joint Statement of the InterAgency Group on Children on the Move
Joint statement of the InterAgency Group on Children on the Move submitted at the 2012 Day of General Discussion hosted by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which overall objective is to promote, at the international and national levels, the ri