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
COVID-19 Resource Center
Resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
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Ukraine Response
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resources, news and other key documents related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries.
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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.
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Visit the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative, aimed at establishing more strategic sector-wide collaboration.
Visit the resource hub on transforming systems of care, including the transitioning of residential care services.
Cross sectoral global coalition working to redirect funding away from orphanages towards family strengthening and address the issues of orphanage voluntourism and orphanage trafficking.
Browse the Practitioner Hub
Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
See an article exploring the complex landscape of alternative care for orphaned and vulnerable children in Afghanistan; an intervention model to support teen mothers developed by Hope and Homes for Children (HHC) in Rwanda; an article examining the impact of clientelism on the rights of children residing in unregulated residential care facilities in Cambodia and Myanmar, and much more.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US, according to sources and an Ice document. The moves are sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about what one critic called “backdoor family separation”.
In Ukraine, for the first time, individuals who have experienced institutional care, as well as those who have experience with family-based care, have united and agreed upon a common position regarding the reform of the child care and support system, including the development of programs to support orphaned children and children deprived of parental care.
Prospects for Children in 2025: Building Resilient Systems for Children’s Futures is the latest edition of the Global Outlook, a series of reports produced each year by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, which look to the key trends affecting children and young people over the following 12 months and beyond.
Remarks by Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, at a high-level event on ending violence against children in New York on 14 November, 2024. She highlighted the Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children held in Bogota, Colombia, on 7 - 10 November, where delegations from more than 120 countries attended to identify innovative solutions focusing on evidence-based approaches for the broadest impact supporting children and their caregivers through effective prevention of and response to violence in its various forms.