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.
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Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
The November 2025 Better Care Network newsletter highlights key developments in child protection and care reform around the world. This edition features new legal and policy updates from Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, and India, alongside evidence reviews focused on strengthening family-based care, supporting care-leavers, and improving services for children with disabilities. It also showcases emerging frameworks such as the “Family-First” national systems tool, as well as global webinars and learning opportunities.
The article describes how hundreds of children across the United States have been left behind — in foster care, with relatives, or neighbors — after their Venezuelan parents were deported, often under sweeping immigration enforcement measures. It highlights the desperation of parents striving to reunite with their children and draws attention to the human costs of mass deportations, underscoring the instability and emotional toll experienced by young migrants caught up in these removals.
As part of the Global Campaign on Children’s Care Reform, the UK government is encouraging countries to strengthen families, expand safe and nurturing family-based alternative care, and progressively end the use of institutions to care for children.
Countries that sign the Charter are encouraged to make their own commitments describing specific actions they will take to realise the aims of the Charter.
This toolset provides a concise, adaptable framework to help national leaders and stakeholders strengthen child protection systems that prioritize family-based care. It distills key international standards and guidance into accessible materials to support informed, strategic conversations on building “Family-First” systems for all children.
In this video, practitioners, faith leaders, and a Kafaalah caregiver share experiences in promoting and strengthening Kafaalah as an important part of family-based alternative care in Kenya.