Care and protection residences are meant to help children with nowhere else to go. Instead, official reports show those kids are experiencing increased serious physical, sexual or emotional harm.
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School meals should strive to provide nutritious diets by serving diverse, safe, palatable, and locally available foods.
There’s an intricate interchange of culture, tradition and societal narratives in the way the vulnerable boys and girls experience school.
There’s a crucial need to connect the most vulnerable people with public services in order to tackle systemic poverty and disadvantage. An integrated approach is key.
The fact that there’s a growing number of child vendors means government interventions for vulnerable children aren’t reaching everyone in need.
It’s not just children designated as being ‘at risk’ who are vulnerable. There are thousands of others who have not been assessed and who need the ‘safe haven’ of school.
Children abused at home may not be safer at school – in fact the lockdown may have made life easier for children at risk, and their parents.
School closures under coronavirus have raised significant risks for vulnerable students who face maltreatment and exposure to violence. Here are five priorities to address when reopening schools.
An expert predicts a rethink on technology access, reconnecting with the working class, and more.
What schools should be doing to deal with the crisis in children’s mental health.
What drives a child to commit sexual abuse?
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Dean of The Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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PhD candidate, Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University
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Research Professor in Education, Boston College
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Faculty of Health Research Associate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Post Doctoral Researcher, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor, Département de psychoéducation, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)
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Professor of Safeguarding and Violence Prevention, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Early Career Researcher in the Sociology of Child Welfare in Africa, Lingnan University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Full Professor, Director of the Centre for Research on Children and Families, McGill University
