The Better Care Network is an interagency network facilitating global information exchange and collaboration on the issue of children without adequate family care.
The global hub of knowledge to facilitate action for children without family care
Ukraine Response
This section includes resources, news and other key documents related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries. This section is updated daily.
The OPT Humanitarian Crisis
This section includes news related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Gaza and other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This section is updated regularly.
COVID-19 Resource Center
Resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
Transforming Children's Care
Visit the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative, aimed at establishing more strategic sector-wide collaboration.
Transition Hub
Visit the resource hub on transforming systems of care, including the transitioning of residential care services.
Browse the Practitioner Hub
Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
See a report on the lived experiences of young care leavers in Iran and their perceptions and views of transitioning to the world outside of home care; a study that examines how parental substance use affects the outcomes of Australian children in out-of-home care; an article addressing the complex dynamics surrounding unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK; the newly added Transition Monitoring Tool and Divestment of Residential Care Services Guidelines and Recommendations and much more.
As world leaders, civil society, advocates, survivors, and young people gather this week for the inaugural Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Bogotá, Colombia, UNICEF is calling for urgent action to combat violence that devastates the lives of millions of children worldwide.
This event will highlight the links between children’s care and violence against children, including the critical role violence plays as a driver of child-family separation and the further violence they often face in the care system meant to protect them – including through child institutionalization.
In this report, SOS Children's Villages and partners from 10 academic institutions from around the world, have researched the phenomenon of child-family separation and what can be done to prevent it. This research tries to fill a global gap of information regarding middle and low-income countries, the contexts of which are not well understood.
Case studies from the Global South provide insights on how to effectively support children who have experienced violence.