Better Care Network highlights recent news pieces related to the issue of children's care around the world. These pieces include newspaper articles, interviews, audio or video clips, campaign launches, and more.
This article from BBC News tells the story of siblings who were separated by Scotland's care system and highlights findings from the recent Independent Care Review in Scotland which revealed the "profound and lifelong consequences" of sibling separation.
According to this article from the Herald, the Independent Scottish Care Review has calculated that the cost of the care system letting down children and their families is £1.6 billion.
This article from Tes highlights some of the key findings and recommendations from the Scottish Independent Care Review, which calls on "schools to stop excluding looked-after children and avoid reductions in these pupils' timetables that mean they are 'denied their rights to education,'” says the article.
This article from BBC News presents the findings and recommendations of the Independent Scottish Care Review, which was welcomed by Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, upon its launch on 5 February 2020.
This article from the Guardian describes a new venture started by social entrepreneur Helen Costa to "help adopters, foster carers, social workers, teachers and judges understand the impact of attachment-related trauma on a child, 'and the response we need from the grownups,'"
This article for The Herald Scotland describes the recently launched Scottish Independent Care Review as "a once-in-a-generation scrutiny of our care system, with far-reaching recommendations for change. It is not unreasonable to expect that other countries might look upon it as a model for their own systems."
"Ten years ago, Parliament demanded that the Home Office, in all of its immigration and asylum functions, must promote and protect the welfare of children," says Lucy Leon, Policy & Practice Adviser – Refugee & Migrant Children at The Children’s Society in this guest blog post for the Refugee Council. "But a decade later some policies still fail in this duty, particularly the one that makes it almost impossible for child refugees, alone in the UK, to be reunited with their family."
"Orphanage tourism turns children into cash-generating commodities subject to the usual economic laws of supply and demand," say Peter Singer and Leigh Mathews in this commentary piece for Project Syndicate.
"The [South Australian] Department for Child Protection will spend millions shifting a program that provides support for kinship carers to the private sector, as part of a State Government push to better connect Aboriginal children in care with their culture," says this article from In Daily.
This article from KQED "looks back at some key moments" from the past few years of the U.S. government initiative to separate families at the border with Mexico and the "many legal challenges to stop it."