The inaugural newsletter of the Global Children’s Care Reform Campaign includes updates on new Charter signatories, country commitments, technical assistance, the Children and Young People's Taskforce, and progress on the Campaign Roadmap.

The Way We Care follows Emily and Lachlan, whose lives have been shaped by out-of-home care, as they work alongside an emerging community of carers, practitioners and advocates who dare to imagine a different future. Through lived experience, relational practice and community leadership, the documentary explores what becomes possible when connection, relationships and belonging are placed at the heart of how we care for children.

This chapter examines an external evaluation of deinstitutionalization efforts in Gauteng Province, South Africa, focusing on the transition of children from residential care to family and community-based settings. It highlights how the evaluation served not only as an accountability mechanism but also as a catalyst for policy learning, institutional change, and broader care systems reform.

This analytical report presents a comprehensive review of national and regional training programmes for Ukraine's social sector workforce to assess their relevance, quality, and alignment with current legislation, international standards, and workforce development needs.

This study explores the challenges child welfare professionals face in addressing child neglect in Ontario, Canada, identifying barriers related to bias, the nature of child welfare practice, limited family resources, and government standards. It highlights the need for stronger prevention services, culturally responsive training, and policies that better align child welfare systems with the needs of children, families, and practitioners.

This webinar—hosted by the Transitioning Residential Care Working Group under the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative—brought together practitioners from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern and Southern Africa to explore how social norms shape efforts to transition away from residential care and how they can be effectively addressed.

This paper traces the evolution of orphan care in India from traditional family and community-based support to formal child care institutions, highlighting key legal and policy reforms and ongoing challenges in institutional care. Using Manipur as a case example, it emphasizes the need to strengthen family-based care, social inclusion, monitoring, and child protection systems to improve outcomes for orphaned and vulnerable children.

The article argues that strong care systems are essential to climate resilience, helping protect vulnerable populations, maintain essential services, and reduce the cascading impacts of climate shocks. Focusing on early childhood education and care and long-term care, it outlines the investments needed to make care services and infrastructure climate-resilient and presents a methodology for estimating these costs, using Bangladesh as a case study.

This article argues that the UK child social care system is in crisis, with rising numbers of children in care and persistently poor outcomes despite substantial spending. It identifies austerity, reduced preventative services, and factors such as domestic violence, parental mental health, and substance misuse as key drivers, and calls for systemic reform focused on reducing child poverty, investing in early intervention, and adopting trauma-informed approaches.

This study highlights that children in Kalaallit Nunaat are placed in out-of-home care at disproportionately high rates, creating significant strain on families and the child welfare system. Drawing on community perspectives, it identifies key research priorities focused on how colonization and structural inequalities shape family life, providing a framework to inform efforts to safely reduce reliance on out-of-home care.