Our project will draw on child-centred research and co-produced knowledge with caregivers and social workers to advance SDG 10 on reducing inequalities. Many lifelong inequalities commence in childhood arising from intersections of class, residency, family misfortunes, and gender. While economic conditions affect the nurturing of children, their influence on the care that children receive is not inevitable. Specifically, with support to caregivers, children in difficult situations can receive the attentive nurturing that will benefit their growing up experience and later life.
Our project will additionally contribute towards SDG 5 on gender inequality because we will support the caregivers of children who live without their parents, many of whom are grandmothers. Moreover, our materials will be gender sensitive. Our project further aims to increase recognition and support of local social workers, many of whom are women. At the same time, we will contribute to SDG 17 by encouraging various partnerships for the goals of equal childhoods. This will include supporting the building of local partnerships in China among local social workers, professionals, NGOs and scholars as well as families.
The project will also contribute to the work of practitioners, academics and graduate students working on children and on families and grandparent caregivers in different country contexts.
