This case study has been produced by Women’s Resource Centre (WRC). It evidences that Government restrictions and legislation introduced to contain and control the COVID-19 crisis are placing inordinate pressure upon a Child Social Care system that was already at crisis point. Moreover, this is having a devastating impact upon women’s right to family life, as enshrined in Article 16 of CEDAW.

Researched and written Dr Sue Robson and  Dr Louise Harvey Golding.

Read the report.

This is part of a series of submissions to the Joint Committee on Human Rights - see other submissions below.

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Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights:  The disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 crisis upon women’s right to family life (Article 14)

Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights: Paper 1 - Addressing the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health

Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights: Paper 2 - Protecting women and girls from gender-based violence

Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights: Paper 3 - Ensuring equal participation of women in decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights: Paper 4 - Providing socio-economic support to women

Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights: Paper 5 - Adopting targeted measures for disadvantaged groups of women  

Response to call for evidence from Joint Committee on Human Rights: Paper 6 - Collecting accurate and comprehensive sex-disaggregated data to inform evidence-based policy making regarding women and girls