Topic Collection: Health and Wellbeing of Street and Working Children
Health and Wellbeing of Street and Working Children
In collaboration with the International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP)
BMJ Paediatrics Open and ISSOP are pleased to announce a topic collection on the theme of ‘Health and Wellbeing of Street and Working Children’.
The aim of this Topic Collection is to capture the experiences, needs, strengths and rights of diverse populations of children and young people who exist on the margins of society—namely street and working children and young people (SWC).
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, via General Comment 21, provides authoritative guidance to states on developing comprehensive, long-term national strategies on children in street situations. However, child health professionals and professional organizations have had little visibility in the response to the needs and rights of these children.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Children in street situations’ access to healthcare: qualitative findings from the Street Child World Cup 2022
Shona Lindsay Macleod, Pia MacRae, Júlia Pimenta
REVIEW
Strategies for healthcare professionals to identify and assist migrant children at risk of labour exploitation or trafficking
Jordan Greenbaum, Melissa I M Torres, Phuong T Nguyen, John H Coverdale, Mollie R Gordon
VIEWPOINT
Street and working children: a call for rights-based approach to their health and well-being
Rajeev Seth, Pia MacRae, Jeffrey Goldhagen, Shanti Raman
Eliminating child labour: what needs to be done?
Ramya Subrahmanian