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News - By involving social workers in schools, it can help to act faster and provide assistance to social services to those who need it in the educational environment.
The study, which involved more than 150 educational institutions across England, explores whether this way of…
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Multimedia - Vulnerability in humanitarian assistance is a concept deriving from the principle of impartiality; i.e. for aid actors to be impartial, they must give priority to urgent cases by assessing beneficiaries’ vulnerability. Moreover, in the EU, states perform…
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News - A cross – sector strategy across youth support services is going to be established by the UK Youth by 2025 to improve youth work.
The main point is to help the youth to get the right support by improving collaboration across services. The services young people can access…
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News - Being mistreated as a child is often a painful and memorable experience. That is what has happened to a woman, Victoria Pritchard. As an adult had she just realized that she had the right to claim her social services file.
People aren’t aware
The woman has started a…
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News - Children's home providers are facing uncertainty in vaccinating staff in England and Wales. Government Guidelines stated that social care workers should be vaccinated but when it comes to children's home providers and caretakers, the vaccines are not guaranteed. The guidance…
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News - According to government statistics, during the first 6 months of the pandemic the number of children killed or injured has doubled. Among the incidents there were death or serious harm to kids, where abuse or neglect is suspected or known and deaths of…
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News - Seven Kosovo journalists were honored with prizes by a Coalition of NGOs for Child Protection in Kosovo, known as KOMF, due to their work in the field of child protection. Journalists supported by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) released investigation…
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News - Unicef has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK for the first time in its more than 70-year history to help feed children hit by the Covid-19 crisis. The UN agency, which is responsible for providing humanitarian…
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News - A recent report published by UNICEF describes the social and economic effects of the pandemic on children, and Australia being one of the leading countries in supporting families.
Australia, along with the US and North Korea, was one of the three countries providing the…
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News - An estimated 121,000 young people in the UK asked the council for help with homelessness in 2019-20. However, it is worth bearing in mind that not everyone reaches the council for help and many more 16-24-year-olds are hidden homeless. This is particularly worrying…
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News - The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published the results of their latest survey on ’The Destitution in the UK’, carried out for the third time, recording findings between 2017 and 2019. The additional interviews carried out in 2020 highlighted how the pandemic made the situation…
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News - The Institute for the Fight against Addiction records an increasing number of alcohol addicts, which increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, but also cases of domestic violence caused by alcohol consumption. It is encouraging that many seek help…
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News - Due to lockdown there was a 15% rise in referral rate compared to before lockdown. Domestic abuse and neglect were the most common reason for referrals, closely followed by mental health related reasons. Alcohol and substance abuse…
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News - A Spanish project called Ödos is helping women from Africa seeking shelter in Europe.
Due to increased forced marriages, gender-based violence or female genital mutilation, women from African countries, mostly Sub-Saharan are fleeing to Europe in search of better…
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News - The Court of Appeal finds the Department for Education’s (DfE) actions against the coronavirus pandemic unlawful for not consulting the children’s rights organizations. The safeguard changes were enacted in late April followed by an informal conference with local authorities…
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News - The Coalition of NGOs for the Protection of Children - KOMF in Kosovo, on the eve of the International Day of the Convention on the Rights of the Child addressed an official request to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo Avdullah Hoti, Minister of Labor and Social…
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News - For children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive homes, life constantly brings up challanges like clinical and social ones, and complex issues.
An updated AAP clinical report describes these challanges and provides pediatricians practical guidance and resources. …
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News - SOS The Children's Villages provided information on the backlog in deinstitutionalization, the operation of more than 80 closed institutions, the lack of educational criteria for quality care, and the inhibition of institutionalization of the lives of…
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News - In early November of 2020, meetings of the Steering Committees (Association of FBiH and Association of RS) were held, along with an extended meeting of the Board of the Association of Social Workers and Other Social Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with representatives of…
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News - The Children’s Commissioner for England released a report examining the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on children.
The report found that less than 25% of children attended school since March, during the lockdown. Thousands of children did not have proper conditions (…
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News - For children, who are living with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) the impact of the pandemic is terrible: Ofsted states that they have regressed in their development owing to the lack of available services. Particularly,…
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Online library - Many children and families across the globe have been affected by COVID-19. Currently, there is no exact information on the long-term effects of this illness, but this review tries to report and investigate the available evidence to…
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News - Parents losing their jobs during the pandemic has affected children: they might do worse in school, have psychological problems, and consequently have more difficulties in adult life.
In the US, parental unemployment has reached a record of 22% in April, with Las Vegas (with…
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Online library - It is estimated that there are around 70,000 children in Bosnia and Herzegovina who have some kind of disability.
This is a very vulnerable group in Bosnian-Herzegovinian society which is faced with prejudice, exclusion and neglect by decision…
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News - Community Care reported that in Kent, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are being held at short-term centres for 17 hours on average and often overnight with no sleeping facilities, without talking to any social workers. As Kent council cannot accept any more…
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News - Luton has announced the official launch of their social work academy for children’s services. They understand the importance and the need for newly qualified social workers and to provide them a mentored learning environment, where they can develop.
The aims of the academy…
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News - Surrey in the UK is helping lonely children seeking asylum. Here are the personal stories of two young people whom Surrey worked with.
Mohammed’s story
Mohamad (turning soon 18) arrived in the UK by smuggling himself from France through a lorry…
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Online library - The range of services aimed to support young people at risk of becoming homeless are lacking according to a new research by charity Homeless Link.
Poor welfare support, lack of information,…
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Multimedia - With the start of the pandemic in 2020, meetings and community halls quickly moved in the online space. YouthLink Scotland created a new mental health and wellbeing resource and engaged with six youth work organisations who have adapted their service and support to be…
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News - During the conflicts in Southern and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, thousands of women, girls, and children have been raped and sexually assaulted. Most of the victims have never received any form of justice, experts say.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination…
