We want a world where street children live with dignity, in safety and security
Consortium for Street Children is a global alliance who exists to be the global voice of street children and ensure their rights to services, resources, care and opportunities are met.
Learning from the past, looking to the future
Five years on from General Comment 21 on Children in Street Situations
The UN General Comment on Children in Street Situations was published five years ago, in 2017. To mark this milestone, the Consortium for Street Children’s Network Forum will be reflecting on successes, challenges, and learnings in both policy and practice since this guidance was first published.
Running virtually from Tuesday 1 – Friday 4 November, the forum is free to attend, and will be valuable for anyone working with street-connected children. Sessions will cover approaches to practical implementation of specialised solutions for street-connected children, working with local and national governments for long-term change, as well as wider discussions on how we frame our work.
CSC and StreetInvest are thrilled to announce both organisations are formally coming together with the complementary strengths of both organisations creating a stronger platform to advocate with and for street-connected children.
As we move forward in this new partnership, both organisations will come together under the Consortium for Street Children brand, and we will continue to progress through CSC’s refreshed 5-year strategy. As this strategy maps strongly onto StreetInvest’s own, we are confident that both organisations can work together under this plan ahead of plotting out our next 5-year strategy together in 2023.
We want to change the world for street children by:
- Ensuring they have the same access to services, resources, care and opportunities that other children have
- Amplifying street children’s voices so they can make their views known
- Putting an end to the discrimination street-connected children around the world face on a daily basis
We work to:
Support, grow and seek funding for a connected global network
Create shared learning and research
Guide policy and influence decision makers
Why does it matter?
Street children depend on the streets for their survival – whether they live on the streets, work on the streets, have support networks on the streets, or a combination of the three.
Nobody knows exactly how many street children there are, but each has their own unique story. Their reason for being connected to the streets are many and varied but poverty, displacement due to natural disasters and conflicts, discrimination, abuse or family breakdown can all play a role.
COVID-19
When the street is your home, how do you keep safe from the pandemic?
Legal Atlas
Street children are one of the world’s most invisible populations. They are overlooked by governments, law and policymakers and many others in society. The Legal Atlas puts information about laws affecting street children directly into the hands of street children and their advocates. By gaining access to legal information, street children and homeless youth are put on the map so that every child can be treated fairly and with respect.
Support with advocacy
Advocacy and Action Guide
The impact of Covid-19 on street children
Report submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the Impact of COVID-19 on Children in Street Situations
Big Give Campaign
Big Give Update Report
Access the Global Resource Centre, the world's largest collection of publications and research on street-connected children
See what's happening in the sector and across CSC's network
Download CSC’s publications, toolkits and guidance to support your work with street-connected children
View our tool to map the legal situation for street-connected children around the world
See who our 100+ network is made up of, where they work, and how they support street-connected children
Find out how to join CSC and the movement to make street-connected children’s rights a reality