Better Care Network highlights upcoming events that are related to children's care around the globe. These events include calls for papers or submissions, requests, conferences, webinars, and more. To view past events, visit the Events Archive page.
Save the Children and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (GSSWA) are pleased to invite you to a webinar on strengthening the Community-Level Social Welfare Workforce (CLSWW). The session will present key learning from the nine‑country analysis and introduce new practical guidance to help practitioners, governments, and partners strengthen the CLSWW through a Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS) and localization lens.
Join an upcoming event hosted by Disability Rights International and supported by the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalization to analyze and present the Inquiry Report and the recommendations issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding Mexico, with the aim of promoting understanding of its findings, reflecting on their implications in the national and international level, and encouraging actions aimed at ensuring compliance with and strengthening the rights of persons with disabilities.
Theirworld, UNICEF and Act for Early Years partners invite you to join them on the occasion of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund 2026 Spring Meetings for a high-level event focusing on transformational early years investments and accelerating momentum towards the first-ever International Financing Summit for Early Childhood in 2027.
This webinar will celebrate a decade of evidence in action and highlight the next phase of INSPIRE’s global implementation and research agenda. It will bring together global leaders, researchers, and practitioners to discuss what the new evidence means for countries, sectors, and systems working to end violence against children.
This webinar, co-hosted by the Transforming Children's Care collaborative and Hope and Homes for Children, will dive into the ground-level realities of system strengthening across three diverse national contexts: South Africa, Rwanda, and Bulgaria. Drawing on the Hope and Homes for Children Global Roadmap for Care Reform: Families. Not Institutions., country experts will share the critical bottlenecks they encountered, the strategies that worked, the course corrections required, and the evidence of impact for children and families.
The Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), together with the Government of Rwanda, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, and the Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN), is hosting Investing in the Early Years: A Global Technical Financing Forum from May 6-8, 2026, in K
The first regional Rise Up Policy Forum + Huddle will take place in Africa, from 24-26 June 2026 in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum + Huddle will explore the contexts, strengths, challenges and solutions specific to the African region, convening African child protection expertise, promoting strong national child protection systems, and creating a regional dialogue aimed at transforming child protection into a more data-informed, collaborative, and preventive system.
The ISPCAN Melbourne 2026 Congress is the flagship international gathering of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), taking place 24–26 August 2026, with related events including pre-congress working groups and the Rise Up Policy Forum on 27 August in Me