Caring for children

Caring for youth
Providing child welfare
Improving child welfare

Description

Caring for children involves ensuring their physical, emotional, and social well-being through consistent protection, nurturing, and guidance. This strategy addresses issues such as neglect, abuse, and inadequate development by providing safe environments, access to healthcare, education, and supportive relationships. Practical actions include monitoring health and nutrition, fostering positive interactions, and advocating for children’s rights, thereby promoting their healthy growth and enabling them to reach their full potential within society.

Implementation

Barnardo's is the largest child care charity in the UK, providing social welfare services for the benefit of children and young people and seeking to promote widespread good practice and developments in services to children. Barnardo's runs over 170 projects in partnership with parents, local authorities, voluntary agencies and churches. The agency works particularly with disadvantaged communities, facilitating groups to find ways of addressing issues and problems they face through recognizing the community context within which families live and grow, and developing ways of empowering people and communities to the benefit of children and families.