This article highlights the importance of kinship care and explains how placing children with relatives or fictive kin can reduce trauma, preserve family and community connections, and improve long‑term well‑being outcomes.

This article describes how Pakistan’s heavy reliance on institutional care (such as orphanages) is both misguided and harmful, emphasizing that most children placed in these settings are not true orphans but are separated from families due to poverty and social pressures. It highlights extensive evidence that institutionalization undermines children’s emotional and developmental well-being and points to weak regulation and oversight of care facilities, which can expose children to further risks.

This article reports that the UK’s suspension of a key refugee family reunion pathway has left hundreds of children stranded and separated from their families, many in unsafe or unstable conditions.

This article describes how the FAMS economic modelling project in Australia shows that greater investment in early intervention and family support services can significantly improve outcomes for children and families while reducing long-term government costs.

This Guardian investigation reveals that the Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children in its first seven months in 2025, dramatically increasing deportations and raising concerns about widespread family separation. The report highlights how these policies have disrupted families and warns of long-term emotional, financial, and legal consequences for those affected.

This UNICEF article highlights the Sri Lankan government’s endorsement of the Global Charter on Children's Care Reform.

This UNICEF Montenegro article reports that the company Piece of Cake has donated $300,000 to support the establishment of Montenegro’s first foster care center, marking a significant step toward strengthening family-based care services in the country.

This article describes how nearly half of child welfare agencies’ spending in the United States is on out-of-home placements.

This report warns reports that modern slavery in the UK has reached its highest recorded levels and is likely to continue rising, according to the country’s independent anti-slavery commissioner. The article highlights that referrals of potential victims have nearly doubled in recent years—surpassing 23,000 cases in 2025—driven not only by better detection but by growing global and domestic vulnerabilities such as poverty, conflict, and unsafe migration pathways.

This Guardian article reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a contract to private security firm MVM Inc.—a company previously accused in lawsuits of “torture,” “enforced disappearance,” and mistreatment of migrant children—to help locate undocumented children who entered the U.S. alone. While ICE describes the effort as “safety and wellness checks” to ensure children’s well-being, internal documents and critics suggest the program is actually intended to facilitate deportations or legal action against the children or their sponsors, raising fears of renewed “backdoor family separation.”