SOS Children's Villages International’s Post

Two Qs for those of you seeing this repost: It’s no secret working parents face distinct challenges — affordability and availability of child care among them — maintaining employment and advancing their careers. But what workers without a 4-yr college degree told Fed researchers in 2022 about specific concerns they had balancing work and family responsibilities illustrates a stark and sobering reality for these workers. Do any of their quotes surprise you? If you’re an employer, what might you consider modifying in your workplace practices to help retain workers?

Join us May 23-24 for #FRIESEN2024 This year's conference highlights "Community Care and Supports for Older Adults: Inclusion, Innovation and Integration." Themes include social prescribing, integration of community and health care systems, and more. Register: https://lnkd.in/gX8evMtu

💬 "I see the potential for our social care system to be transformed into one that is world class, responsive, compassionate and sustainable." 💼 Our CEO, Stephen Veevers, recently spoke about the need to get serious about social care reform in the run up to the general election. 📢 "Social care is not a peripheral issue; it is central to the health and well-being of our society." 👇 Read more here: https://loom.ly/x9EiWNo #LearningDisability #GeneralElection #SocialCare #MyVoteMyVoice

This week’s top report is… ‘Help way earlier!’ How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing ➡️ apo.org.au/node/328020 🚸 A catalyst for evidence-based reform of child justice and wellbeing systems across Australia. 🚸 The Australian Human Rights Commission report, built on decades of national and international evidence about what actually works to reduce child offending, argues that current approaches to 'youth crime’ fundamentally misunderstand the problem. The authors propose transforming the child justice system to address the social determinants of crime by making child safety and wellbeing a national priority. National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds: “We need to turn our attention and our resources to addressing the underlying causes, and to the barriers that stop us taking national action on evidence-based systemic reform.” The focus of the report’s 24 recommendations is 🔸 elevating child justice and wellbeing to a national priority, 🔸 coordinating action across Australia’s federation, and 🔸 ensuring that systemic reform is evidence-based and grounded in human rights. #evidencebased #humanrights #reform #youthjustice #childjustice #youthcrime

More care, less clipboards. More eye contact and relationships , less bureaucracy, more capacity to reflect and notice the risks, less pointless checklists and obvious system flags that ultimately mean nothing. Less siloed health and care agendas within central government , and perhaps an integrated Ministry would all be a start .

How fortunate to be able to share my thoughts on the challenges parents (Moms!) face and exceptionally so knowing there are bipartisan lawmakers working together to identify ways to ease the burden. For more on why read my LTE https://lnkd.in/eVXiu8cB and for how check out this fun interview.

A 🔥sensational🔥 report. I'm pretty new to this, but it feels rare to see something so exhaustively researched and far-reaching that is also so clear and direct. TLDR: Locking kids up does not make the community safer (that's a direct quote.) Australia continually fails to implement reforms that work, in part because of deliberate polarisation, sensationalism and fear-mongering around the issue. We urgently need to overhaul the current system in favour of one based in safety, wellbeing and the fundamental human rights of children. Addressing the injustice, inequity and suffering that precede crime is the best way to prevent it.

Economic well-being is a fundamental right rooted in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Article 22 emphasizes that everyone deserves access to social security and the economic, social, and cultural rights essential for dignity and personal development. To learn more, contact C4: www.c4housing.org. #HumanRights #EconomicWellBeing

📊📃Last week we launched 'Who Cares Wins' - Unfair To Care 2024. A report that explores how and why social care is set to be a pivotal issue in society this election year. Our message to government is clear: Who Cares Wins. 👉Read the full report and support our campaign at www.UnfairToCare.co.uk #UnfairToCare #WhoCaresWins

This week marks the four year anniversary of the first Covid-19 #lockdown in the UK. We look back as Save the Children UK, alongside Just for Kids Law and Children's Rights Alliance for England joined forces as Core Participants in Module 2 of the Covid-19 public inquiry. This module delved into the core decision-making processes and political governance during the pandemic. 💔 While the pandemic impacted everyone, its effects on babies, children, and young people will be enduring and era-defining. 📢 We actively engaged in the Covid-19 public inquiry to shed light on how the UK government's decisions affected children and families. Our report, "What about the children?" outlines these impacts. 👇 #CovidInquiry #ChildrensRights #WhatAboutTheChildren #SaveTheChildren