child protection

Children left alone at home vulnerable offline, online

Speakers at a discussion yesterday called for stronger government and private sector initiatives to protect children left at home by their working parents from harm in both the physical world and cyberspace.

World Children’s Day / Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach

The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.

Only 3,000 social workers to protect vulnerable children in Bangladesh: Unicef

Over 100,000 social workers are needed in Bangladesh to adequately respond to the needs of vulnerable children, but currently there are only 3,000 social workers in the country, Unicef has said.