Covid-19

‘Home sweet home’ no longer tenable as new report shows spaces are becoming physically and emotionally suffocating for most African girls.

Quarantines, stay-home measures and movement restrictions related to COVID-19 have brought potential victims and potential perpetrators together under the confines of the home setting, increasing girls’ close and constant exposure to abuse and violence.

Plan International and African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) are calling for urgent interventions to address spiralling rates of violence against girls and women in Africa as COVID-19 intensifies and lockdowns continue. 

50 per cent of UK households believe they will struggle to meet their financial commitments over the next three months. In the first three weeks after the UK government introduced the ‘lockdown’, an estimated 7 million households had lost their earned income... 

An overview of the various global and regional analysis on the impact of COVID-19 on poverty from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty finds that millions more will be pushed into extreme poverty worldwide.

Help families facing Covid-19 crisis: social policy academics and the PSE say raise Child Benefit to £50

With millions of families facing a catastrophic loss of income due to the coronavirus, 85 leading social policy academics from the LSE and universities across the UK, have signed a letter calling on the Chancellor to raise Child Benefit to £50 per child per week. They say it is a simple, efficient and cost-effective way to provide urgently needed help.