Newsletter

Throughout the year, the BCN Secretariat disseminates the latest research, tools, news, videos, opportunities and events, and other resources related to children's care around the globe through its monthly newsletter. The newsletter membership has expanded from just over 300 participants in 2003 to over 5,200 across 67 countries in 2024.

Special Issues of the newsletter are also published, often in partnership with key actors in the sector, focusing on a particular theme, country or region to draw attention to the growing body of knowledge developing on the issue or context and to help busy practitioners keep abreast of learning and changes. If you want to share a resource or propose a theme for a special issue, please contact us at contact@bettercarenetwork.org

Better Care Network

This month’s issue of the Better Care Network newsletter, published in partnership with SPOON, focuses on children’s nutrition and care, including nutrition and food security for vulnerable children during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Better Care Network

In this newsletter issue, the Better Care Network continues to share tools, guidance, information, and other resources regarding children's care and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic as practitioners, policymakers, and other key stakeholders work to respond to the needs of children and families impacted by this crisis.

Better Care Network

This special issue of the BCN newsletter was published to coincide with the launch of a series of papers by The Lancet Group Commission on Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation, providing an evidence-based policy-focused review addressing the issue of institutional care across the globe.

Better Care Network

In this newsletter issue, the Better Care Network continues to share tools, guidance, information, and other resources regarding children's care and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic as practitioners, policymakers, and other key stakeholders work to respond to the needs of children and families impacted by this crisis.

Better Care Network

This month's edition of the BCN newsletter focuses on child neglect and features a Special journal issue of Child Indicators Research, along with other publications addressing the topic in a variety of settings around the globe. It also includes a section of tools, guidance, information, and other resources regarding children's care and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This issue of the BCN newsletter highlights resources on the care and protection of children during the COVID-19 crisis, including inter-agency technical guidance developed to support child protection practitioners and government officials in their immediate response to the child protection concerns faced by children who are at risk of separation or in alternative care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This issue of the BCN newsletter, published jointly with the Independent Care Review, highlights the collection of reports and materials produced by the Review, as well as other articles and resources highlighting its findings and recommendations.

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This issue of the BCN newsletter highlights some of the latest research and other resources regarding Indigenous children in care.

Better Care Network

This issue of the BCN Newsletter highlights the newly adopted Resolution on the Rights of the Child focused on the theme of children without parental care as well as other recently adopted Resolutions and published reports from the UNGA.

Better Care Network

To mark the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 10th anniversary of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, this special issue of the BCN newsletter features brief reflections from several key actors on different topics and aspects of children's care, focusing on the last 10 years of progress in the care reform movement, as well as hopes and recommendations for the future.