Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in SE Europe and Central Asia
In our latest Research Matters podcast, we’re talking about our recent report: Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with two members of our research team: Dominic Richardson and Kaku Attah Damoah. This report is the first in a series looking at social protection for families and children in the aftermath of COVID-19 in various regions of the world - the first region to be looked at in this series being Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Central Asian states. Some of the questions we’ll be discussing with our researchers today: • How is COVID-19 affecting children in the region? • What can we learn from previous crises? • Are children more vulnerable after a major crisis? Evidence from previous crises shows that social protection responses to crises have contributed to protecting children from the worst effects, and that austerity has resulted in the closure of key child services, reduction in parental caregiving, homelessness, crime, mental health problems and more concerning, further infectious disease outbreaks. In this podcast, we unpack why spending to protect families is so important after a crisis. READ the report: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1139-supporting-families-and-children-beyond-covid-19-in-eca-countries.html?utm_source=soundcloud