Child protection
UNICEF strengthens child protection systems to safeguard children and their families from a full spectrum of risks. This includes ensuring every child has a supportive family environment, access to justice and protection from violence.
The challenge
Every child has the right to protection. In Europe and Central Asia UNICEF strengthens national child protection systems, particularly in the areas of family separation, access to justice and protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.
National child protection systems include all measures and organizations working together in a country to protect children. They can include organizations vital to social welfare, education and health care, as well as law-enforcement agencies and organizations responding to humanitarian emergencies. A strong child protection system addresses the many inter-connected risks that confront children and their families. The challenge is to build such systems in every country across the region to protect every child.
The solution
UNICEF’s work in Georgia supports the building of strong national child protection systems that work in the best interests of all children, including the most vulnerable. Our work to strengthen child protection focuses on three key areas: keeping families together, access to justice and the prevention of violence against children.
Resources
These resources on child protection represent just a small selection of materials produced by UNICEF and its partners in the region. The list is regularly updated to include the latest information.
Papers and reports
Hidden in Plain Sight report (2014) - UNICEF
Estimating the number of children in formal alternative care: challenges and results (2017) - UNICEF
MICS reports with data on child disciplining and other forms of violence against children (various) - UNICEF
Websites
End violence against children; the global partnership
UNICEF's global #ENDviolence campaign
Special representative of the secretary general on violence against children