Children Affected by Poverty and Social Exclusion

Around the world, poverty and social exclusion are driving factors behind the placement of children into alternative care.  Families give up their children because they are too poor to care for them, or they feel that it is the best way to help them to access basic services such as education and health care. Discrimination and cultural taboos mean that girls, children with disabilities, ethnic minorities, children with HIV/AIDS and children born out of wedlock, make up a disproportionate number of children abandoned into alternative care.

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Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS,

Evaluates a number of fundamental misperceptions that have undermined the global response to children affected by the epidemic, and sets out evidence on how to better respond to their needs.

Qun Zhao, Xiaoming Li, Xiaoyi Fang, Bonita Stanton, Guoxiang Zhao, Junfeng Zhao, and Liying Zhang,

This study aims to compare perceived life improvement and life satisfaction among double orphans in 3 main care arrangements (group home, AIDS orphanage, kinship care) in 2 rural Chinese counties.

Better Care Network and UNICEF,

Manual to assist countries in strengthening their information system around children in formal care through data collection around 15 global indicators

EveryChild,

Evaluation of the need for increased understanding and inclusive responses to highly marginalized and separated children.

Anthony Hodges, UNICEF,

Assesses constraints and opportunities for social protection programming regionally with particular consideration for child sensitive social protection.

Sheridan Bartlett - Human Settlements Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED),

This paper discusses the probable impacts for children of different ages from the increasing risk of storms, flooding, landslides, heat waves, drought and water supply constraints that climate change is likely to bring to most urban centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

Lacey Andrews Gale,

Examines the challenges posed in monitoring and ensuring child protection in informal and formal fostering in post-conflict areas.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd,

On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and Indigenous assimilation.

UNICEF,

Provides insight into the situation of children outside parental care in South Asia, gaps in legislation, capacity, and services, with reference to national and international legal instruments.

Save the Children,

A brief illustration of ten economic strengthening tools that can be adapted to address child vulnerability due to HIV/AIDS, conflict, natural disaster, extreme poverty, or other contexts.