#ChildLabour

Start with the Institution, Cover Wider Child Protection

Posted on January 20, 2021January 4, 2021 by Florence

At the end of last year, I attended an online course organised by Harvard X: Child Protection: Child Rights in Theory and Practice. It was an interesting course that gave a very good overview of what Child Rights and Child Protection entail, looking in detail at several aspects, and also providing insight into what is needed to work towards effective Child Protection. On this latter subject, one of the issues that came up was that in the past – and to a certain extent still – the tendency was to use a siloed approach to individual child protection issues, which usually led to limited success.

A Story for Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2020December 19, 2020 by Florence

Today’s blog is not a Christmas story. However, Christmas is a time for storytelling, and also a time to contemplate how things may not always be what they seem. And so I want to share a story with you about a girl whom I have known for some time and about what happened to her over the past few months.

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

Posted on July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 by Florence

Unfortunately trafficking in people, and in children, is still big business, all around the world. There are practically no countries that are not a source, destination or transit country for child trafficking. This is something that needs to be tackled, and in order to be able to tackle it, we need to be aware of the problem. As well as of the fact that child trafficking is closely related to institutionalisation of children.

How Child Trafficking Is Related to ‘Orphanages’

Posted on October 16, 2018November 30, 2018 by Florence

Today, on 16 October 2018, NGOs across the world are joining forces in a global trafficking campaign to raise awareness of the scale, the roots and the consequences of human and child trafficking. Unfortunately, child trafficking is a subject that is extremely relevant to anyone involved in institutional residential childcare. So, in this blog, I will describe some of the ways in which the two are connected.