Inspiring Children’s Futures is excited to be a founding partner of the Observatory for Children’s Human Rights in Scotland. As part of our work with the Observatory, we were delighted to advise and support the ‘Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to COVID-19 in Scotland’

The Inspiring Children’s Futures Doctoral Research Centre works to generate the evidence needed for recovery that delivers on children’s rights and wellbeing in the COVID Era. We have recruited fully funded, globally minded PhD students to explore innovative ways to best ensure children’s rights and wellbeing.

The Justice for Children, Justice for All  Project  offers a new starting point to place children at the heart of an emerging global movement for justice. The  Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies have commissioned  Prof Jennifer Davidson, Executive Director of Inspiring Children's Futures  to lead a  Justice for Children, Justice for All  global initiative to help realise UN Sustainable Development Goal SDG 16.3

Throughout 2020, we developed the COVID 4P Log study, a smartphone app which explored providers’ and policymakers’ reflections about working through the COVID-19 pandemic, in partnership with 17 international Key Partners. We’re developing new publications to share the findings, and working with young people as part of the #COVIDUnder19 initiative to help inform a global understanding of policies and practices to support children’s wellbeing.

This first Learning Report – with results drawn from 932 responses by 232 respondents in 22 countries – provides an overview of the findings related to successes in supporting children’s wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges to service provision and their impact on children and families, and lessons learned and recommended actions for improving outcomes for children.

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance have been wonderful Key Partners to our app. We are delighted to repost this blogpost on recognising the essential role of the social service workforce during COVID-19 responses and for post-COVID recovery.

The team and participants of the #CovidUnder19 initiative have been wonderful key partners of our app. To celebrate the launch of their findings this week, Naval Yudhanto, one of the initiative’s participants, reflects on his experiences of COVID-19 as an overseas student away from home.

For our first blog post, we turned to our Key Partner, Defence for Children International, and asked them to introduce some of the amazing work they have done in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on their Global Survey Report, Gemma Cavaliere – DCI’s Outreach and Development Officer – reflects on the organisation’s responses to the pandemic and its impact on children’s rights and wellbeing. In this blog post, she discusses best practice and the main takeaways for the organisation.