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 Global Campaign on Children's Care Reform
This section focuses on the Global Campaign on Children's Reform. It focuses on why the campaign matters, who can join the movement, and how to get involved.
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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.
The May 2026 Better Care Network newsletter highlights new research, tools, and learning opportunities focused on strengthening care systems for children without adequate family care. This edition features an upcoming webinar on addressing social norms in transition practice, the 2025 BICON Conference Report, guidance on parenting support for children with developmental disabilities, an updated version of the Primary Prevention Framework for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Introductory Learning Package, and much more.
This New York Times video documents how an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has affected a vulnerable group of children living in an orphanage, showing how the arrival of an infected newborn triggered a rapid health crisis.
The 2025 BICON Conference Summary Report captures the outcomes of the 6th Biennial International Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 15–16 October 2025. It brings together key discussions, insights, and recommendations from across the conference, providing a clear direction for strengthening care reform and advancing inclusive, family-based systems for children.
This technical brief highlights parenting support strategies and interventions that can benefit parents and help them create better spaces for children with developmental delays and disabilities to thrive. The brief includes data on children with developmental delays and disabilities and features country examples from around the world.
This webinar, co-hosted by the Transforming Children's Care collaborative and Hope and Homes for Children, dove into the ground-level realities of system strengthening across three diverse national contexts: South Africa, Rwanda, and Bulgaria. Country experts shared the critical bottlenecks they encountered, the strategies that worked, the course corrections required, and the evidence of impact for children and families.