Better Care Network highlights recent news pieces related to the issue of children's care around the world. These pieces include newspaper articles, interviews, audio or video clips, campaign launches, and more.
The article reports on a key event held on 2 December 2025 at the Eurochild–hosted session at the European Parliament, marking the end of a three-year national effort in Bulgaria to shift from institutional care toward family- and community-based child protection.
This article notes how Ofsted’s annual report reveals that nine in ten councils in England are placing children in unregistered care homes, some charging up to £30,000 per week, due to a lack of available registered placements despite a record 4,010 children’s homes nationwide.
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.
This article highlights the experiences of Greenlandic families in Denmark whose children were taken into care following parental competency tests (FKUs), which critics say are culturally biased, conducted in Danish rather than Kalaallisut, and fail to reliably predict parenting ability.
The article reports that families of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia after the 2022 invasion are urgently calling for their return, saying that contact with many of the children has been cut off and that Russian authorities are ignoring pleas to facilitate reunification.
he article reports that Alf Dubs, a veteran Labour peer and former child refugee, strongly criticized the new asylum proposals by the Home Office under Shabana Mahmood, accusing the government of “using children as a weapon.” The proposed reforms include removing financial support for families wi
The article reports that President Trump secured $25 million in federal funding to strengthen support for youth in foster care, particularly focusing on those aging out of the system who often face heightened risks of homelessness, unemployment, and social marginalization.
The Kenyan government has announced a plan to gradually reintegrate about 44,000 children currently living in private orphanages and children’s homes back to their families by 2032, under its 10‑year National Care Reform Strategy.
This article describes how the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in Ireland, Norma Foley, has announced the start of a consultation process for the forthcoming “National Policy Framework on Alternative Care” which aims to shape Ireland’s approach for the approximately 5,000 children
This Guardian article tells the story of Craig, who became homeless at 13 after running away from a children’s home in Nottingham.