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 that New Zealand has temporarily suspended recognition of many international adoptions — especially those from Samoa — citing concerns over cases of abuse after children adopted overseas arrived in New Zealand.
This Washington Post article focuses on how ICE officers are ramping up arrests in the United States, leaving hundreds of migrant children to be sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation.
In this news video, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Khan Younis, Palestine. The toll of the ongoing conflict in Gaza is laid bare through the stories of orphaned children and grieving families.
The article argues that the system of children’s residential care in the UK is failing to meet the needs of young people, pointing to persistent evidence that many children do worse in residential homes than in alternative arrangements.
This BBC article covers a National Audit Office (NAO) report showing that the cost of residential care for vulnerable children in England has nearly doubled in five years to £3.1bn, with councils spending an average of £318,400 per child annually, yet many children are still plac
In this news article, the BBC explores how hundreds of children of Syria’s political detainees were taken from their families during the Assad regime and placed in orphanages, many run by SOS Children’s Villages International.
This article exposes horrific abuse and neglect uncovered at a state-run children’s home in Szolnok, Hungary, where children reportedly endured physical violence, sexual abuse, filthy living conditions, and staff indifference to their complaints.
This article, from EuroChild, notes how in August 2025, North Macedonia took a significant stride toward strengthening child welfare by officially adopting its National Action Plan on the Rights of the Child for 2025–2029.
This article notes how a U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, following reports they had been placed on planes for return under a new pilot program.
This piece examines persistent gaps in Egypt’s Kafala system for children deprived of parental care, highlighting the lack of disaggregated data on children, foster families, and care homes.