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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
In November 2009, the UN General Assembly formally welcomed the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children. These important Guidelines aim to support work to strengthen families, and to ensure appropriate care for children outside of parental care. EveryChild promotes the guidelines in all of our work.
Missing
Children without parental care in international development policy
To coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to highlight the importance of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, our Missing report examines the limited progress in achieving children’s fundamental rights to grow up in a loving family environment. We reveal how an increasing number of children are growing up alone, without their parents, often spending their childhoods in care, on the streets, in detention or working away from home. This is having a devastating impact on their rights, damaging their education and development, threatening their survival and health, and exposing them to violence, abuse and exploitation. We call for the widespread implementation of the Guidelines, for an increase in investments in child protection systems, and for other sectors, such as health, education and social protection, to acknowledge the importance of children’s protection and care.
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