Capita commissions incisive writing and other content from emerging and established writers and producers offering a unique angle or a new idea related to the flourishing, health, and well-being of young children, their families, and their world.
In order to ensure greater diversity of voices and perspectives, we will begin publishing a regular ‘Pitch Sheet’ of topics we are interested in exploring. If you think you have a unique angle or a new idea, or know someone who does, we invite you to pitch us or pass the pitch sheet along to someone from whom our audience should hear.
Review our content guidelines here.
Caregiving
At the end of March, the Care Collective wrote: “the novel coronavirus outbreak is a new global crisis. Yet the current crisis is not only the result of a new pathogen circulating around the world. It is also a crisis of care.” The essential nature of care work — from child care to health care — is now front and center in our public discussions. We would like to build on these conversations and imagine new possibilities and models for valuing the work of essential care workers across culture and society, and in political, corporate, and philanthropic decision making.
Governance
UN Secretary General António Guterres has said that the pandemic could pose “a significant threat to the maintenance of international peace and security” and that COVID-19 “contributes to enhanced instability, enhanced unrest and enhanced conflict … that make us believe that this is, indeed, the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War.” Governments face new challenges while lacking trust and capacity to respond nimbly and quickly to new crises. This undoubtedly presents a problem for the children of the world. On the one hand, such crises imperil their future well-being. They are growing up into a world that is less secure and less resilient than we would like. On the other hand, they face immediate needs, such as child care, nutrition assistance, clean water, and sanitation, which governments may not be able to help families and communities deliver. While the challenges are evident, there are new opportunities as well, including a chance to build the resilience of local communities and governments to support the flourishing of children and families while national governments stumble. We are interested in how good governance and strong, accountable institutions — and their absence — impacts the flourishing of young children and what new ideas are out there for building governance that is worthy of our children’s future.
Pitch us by emailing Joe Waters.