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
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.
Legislation now before Congress seeks better accounting of “hidden foster care” — a widespread but poorly regulated practice relied upon by child welfare agencies to shuffle kids out of their parents’ homes without court oversight.
This thematic brief helps government policy and decision-makers understand the essential role of the social service workforce and how to strengthen that workforce in line with their national commitments to care reform and regional and global conventions. It includes high level guidance, recommendations and practical examples from diverse contexts for consideration when developing, supporting and strengthening the social service workforce.
This briefing book, prepared by the Inter-Parliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, serves as a practical guide for legislators on how to--through a combination of global partnerships and domestic action--work together to educate, advocate and legislate to end orphanage trafficking.
“When we approach the family holistically and we use case management tools in matching challenges and problems of the family with the available tools then this will benefit the child,” Roman Zhukovskyi, World Bank Social Protection Specialist, shares learnings regarding the importance of social protection to enable care reform and the role of case management in ensuring effective social protection.