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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Jun 3

Encouraging to hear the insights, child-centredness and impatience for change voiced across Ministers of Justice today at the learning- focused ministerial roundtable - brilliant partnership around the table, with a commitment to apply effective actions to accelerate change.

Inspiring Children’s Futures @iicfstrath.bsky.social · Jun 3

This AM, the #WorldCongress2025 also featured a Ministerial Roundtable hosted by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children, alongside the Global Initiative on JWC and IICF as representatives and lead of the Working Group on SDG16+ Justice for Children.

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Inspiring Children’s Futures @iicfstrath.bsky.social · May 28

It’s almost time for IICF to head to the 5th World Congress on Justice With Children!

📅 2–4 June 2025
📍 Madrid, Spain (with hybrid events)
🎯 Theme: Advancing Child-Centred Justice: Preventing and responding to violence affecting children in justice systems
👉 justicewithchildren.org/en/world-con...

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · May 30

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

Opinion | Children in Gaza Are Starving. Let the U.N. Do Its Job.

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks to everyone for such a fantastic celebration of this important work with and for children & young people at University of Strathclyde

We’re left with a sense of both the urgency and importance of this work.

Inspiring Children’s Futures @iicfstrath.bsky.social · May 22

💫 Making a real difference for children & young people at Strathclyde! ⬇️🧵

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Hannah Hall @hannahlhall.bsky.social · May 3

Very happy to share this recently published review we conducted at IICF on well-being measures vis-à-vis the perspectives of children in alternative care link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do Concepts and Measures of Children’s Well-being Outcomes Align with Perspectives of Care-Experienced Children? A Scoping Review - Child Indicators Research

Children in alternative care score consistently lower on measures of well-being outcomes. However, research on children’s well-being outcomes and the fulfilment of their human rights have overlooked t...

link.springer.com

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

9/ And thanks to YOU for reading through to the end of this long thread!

We look forward to taking these ideas forward with others.

We would love to hear your thoughts on what we've found.

Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

8/ Thank you 🙏 to the children and young people who contributed to the #DGD21 on their personal #careexperiences, to @royalsoced.bsky.social & #DANIDA for your support & to our partners for your insights & contributions.

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

7/ We suggest a rights-based approach to well-being outcomes that is based on the full spectrum of children’s human rights.

Read it here: rdcu.be/eiQfC

How do Concepts and Measures of Children’s Well-being Outcomes Align with Perspectives of Care-Experienced Children? A Scoping Review

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

6/ We propose by involving children in the design of well-being outcomes, measures are more likely to reflect the intersecting social realities in which they live to ensure that the inequalities in well-being outcomes of care-experienced children form part of the research agenda.

Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

5/ Key findings included the limited mention of domains of identity, inclusion, quality services, safety, support and trust, as central to the more holistic understandings of well-being that care-experienced children raised in consultations in the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child DGD 2021.

Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

4/ Summary:
Children in alternative care score consistently lower on measures of well-being outcomes. But, research on children’s well-being outcomes & the fulfilment of their human rights have overlooked their experiences. So, this scoping review aims to understand children’s well-being outcomes…

Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

3/ A call to:

🟣 Specifically consider the experiences of children in alternative care, as a way to improve all children's wellbeing outcomes.

🟢 Ensure that their wellbeing outcomes are contextualised using intersectionality & all human rights.

Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

2/ Our key conclusions from this Scoping Review include:

We observed that:

🟠 Adult-defined #wellbeing #outcomes lead to gaps

🔵 Clear definitions of children’s wellbeing outcomes are often absent in the literature, and there's uncertainty around categorising domains and indicators.

Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Apr 23

1/ Really pleased to be sharing this just-published, open-source article with you, led by the amazing
@iicfstrath.bsky.social
research associate Dr Hannah Hall with brilliant support from
@unistrathclyde.bsky.social
#SocialWorkandSocialPolicy #VisitingSeniorResearchFellow Dr. Chrissie Gale

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Apr 4

I kind of want to go

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Mar 20

We’re delighted to share this #SummaryReport of an excellent learning session we hosted in 🇨🇦 in the OECD #Ministerial #Justice #Roundtable alongside our fantastic partners the People-centred Justice team at OECD & the Department of Justice 🇨🇦

See 🇸🇱 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇱🇺 snapshots advancing child-centred justice
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Inspiring Children’s Futures @iicfstrath.bsky.social · Mar 18

Our latest Reference Report recaps the OECD Workshop on Equal Access to Justice for Children, aligned with the 2024 OECD Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice in Ottawa, Canada.

With: OECD, Department of Justice, Canada & #SDG16J4C

🖱️Event report: inspiringchildrensfutures.org/blog/oecd-wo...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · Mar 20

Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court for mass abduction of children from #Ukraine.

Trump is apparently helping him hide the evidence.

Lou Charbonneau @loucharb.bsky.social · Mar 19

One of many recent gifts to Putin — “Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in #Russia”

Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia

A Democratic lawmaker is drafting a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database on thousands of children has been deleted.

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Davidson @jenniferiicf.bsky.social · Feb 26

Coalitions have perhaps never been more essential.

We’re so grateful to our partners across the world who work with our small team to champion & progress global aspirations with & for children💫

Read our #InspiringChildrensFutures Strategy 2025-2030👇

inspiringchildrensfutures.org/blog/strateg...

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Feb 19

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

James Meek | An Enemy to Its Friends

In a wiser and more competent – to say nothing of a better – world, the initial approach to Putin would have been...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · Feb 13

Children forced to stay in juvenile justice facility due to shortage of suitable bail addresses. www.thedetail.tv/articles/car...

Care home shortages force scores of children to stay in juvenile detention

Between 2021 and 2023, the Department of Justice recorded 148 delays in releasing children on bail

www.thedetail.tv

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · Feb 16

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · Feb 1

As Donald Trump takes aim at global norms and institutions, the question of what parts of the post-Cold War order can be saved – and for whom – requires urgent attention.

Can the international order survive Trump 2.0?

As Trump takes aim at global norms and institutions, the question of what parts of the post-Cold War order can be saved – and for whom – requires urgent attention.

www.chathamhouse.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 21

Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls Tory response ‘awful, inconsequential’

Prof Alexis Jay says reaction of former home secretary Suella Braverman angered victims and survivors * UK politics live – latest updates The last Conservative government issued an “awful, inconsequential, insubstantial” response to a seven-year…

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NPR @npr.org · Jan 28

As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.

Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients

As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Jan 23

In the wake of the FAI into the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay, the Scottish government has just announced 1. The Scottish Prison Service will urgently review its policy on items that can be used as ligatures, and the development of suicide prevention technology will be accelerated.

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