Where do we go from here? A child rights-based response to COVID-19

Raman, Shanti; Harries, Maria; Nathawad, Rita; Kyeremateng, Rosina; Seth, Rajeev; Lonne, Bob

doi:10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000714

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“…This is one of the reasons why the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement urging the safe return to school for millions of students in the United States who have been learning at home since the pandemic first began (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020). As explained by Raman et al (2020), public health measures used to prevent one problem can actually undo efforts to prevent or lessen another. In this case, staying home keeps children safe from a virus, but it also places some in harm's way at home.…”

Section: What Child Welfare Data Show: Fewer Reports But Not Less Riskmentioning

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How COVID-19 Is Placing Vulnerable Children at Risk and Why We Need a Different Approach to Child Welfare

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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new worries about the welfare of children, particularly those of families living in poverty and impacted other risk factors. These children will struggle more during the pandemic because of financial pressures and stress placed on parents, as well as their limited access to services and systems of support. In this commentary, we explain how current circumstances reinforce the need for systemic change within statutory child welfare systems and the benefits that would accrue by implementing a continuum of services that combine universal supports with early intervention strategies. We also focus on promising approaches consistent with goals for public health prevention and draw out ideas related workforce development and cross-sector collaboration.

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How COVID-19 Is Placing Vulnerable Children at Risk and Why We Need a Different Approach to Child Welfare

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“…Although impact at a community or population level is not measureable, a tangible flow on effect of this collaboration has been the ongoing commitment by ISSOP, ISPCAN and IPA to joint advocacy and action on key issues such as children on the move, children living in humanitarian contexts and most recently a child rights and equity response to COVID-19. The Budapest Declaration on children and youth on the move was supported and endorsed widely ( Goldhagen, Kadir, Fouad, Spencer, & Raman, 2018 ); the Beirut conference on Children in Armed Conflict had strong involvement of the tripartite collaboration and the COVID-19 research and advocacy working group has already developed an editorial ( Raman et al, 2020 ), a declaration, a position statements and research repository.…”

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Ending violence against children: What can global agencies do in partnership?

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Globally, the range, scale and burden of all forms of violence against children (VAC) have visibly increased. Yet VAC as a physical, mental, public and social health concern is only recently gaining the prominence it deserves. Addressing VAC is critical. Violence experienced early in life can result in short, medium, long-lasting, and/or even inter-generational negative health outcomes. Ample evidence shows that VAC is widespread and the most common forms are usually perpetrated by people with whom children interact every day in their homes, schools and communities. We report on an innovative collaboration between global agencies, led by the International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP), the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), and the International Pediatric Association (IPA), who were galvanized to respond to VAC using a child-rights and public health lens. This collaboration led to a position statement on VAC with an implementation plan. The strength of the position statement was the explicit incorporation of a rights-based expansive understanding of VAC, with a description of typologies of violence pertinent to children globally, including child labor, children in armed conflict, trafficking of children and gender-based violence; and the identification of strategies both in preventing violence from occurring and ameliorating the effects in its aftermath. We report on the challenges and successes of our collaborative action at regional and supra-national levels, including opportunistic action.

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“… [2] . Women in an abusive relationship and their children are more likely to be exposed to domestic violence and abuse when family members spend more time in close contact with each other and when families have to cope with additional stress, financial problems, and/or unemployment [4] .…”

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“…It is known that emergencies and natural disasters increase the risk of child abuse because they weaken child protection services and disrupt preventative measures [3] , [4] . The lack of social care and monitoring during a lockdown means that domestic violence and child abuse may go unreported.…”

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“…Parent–child meetings in the presence of a social worker were suspended, and daycare centers for disabled children were closed. The government's instructions to stay at home and the fear of catching COVID-19 led to a sharp decline in visits to emergency departments and in hospital appointments (by 45% for adults and by 70% in pediatric wards since mid-March 2020), which in turn led to reduced opportunities for screening for child abuse [4] , [5] .…”

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