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.
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 news article, from the Guardian Tanzania, notes how the government of Tanzania has initiated a nationwide programme to support children living and working on the streets, marking a significant step towards protecting vulnerable groups and fostering inclusive development.
This news article explores how a new demographic study reveals that the likelihood of Finnish children experiencing out-of-home care at least once during childhood has doubled—rising to an estimated 6% in 2020, compared to about 3% in 1993—largely driven by an increase in residential care placements.
A recent Queensland Family and Child Commission report warns that the state's over-reliance on residential care has driven costs from around AUD 200 million in 2015 to AUD 1.12 billion in 2024, and without systemic reform, expenses could skyrocket to as much as AUD 7 billion annually by 2030.
In this TIME op-ed, anti-trafficking advocate Ruchira Gupta warns that the Trump administration’s recent immigration enforcement framework is endangering already vulnerable children.
In this article, UNICEF discusses how UNICEF and the Government of Mozambique are advancing reforms to reduce the number of children placed in institutions—from 7,269 in 2020 to 3,624 in 2024—by prioritizing family-based care.
When the Syrian regime fell in December, its secrets began to emerge from the rubble. One of its darkest secrets: the forced disappearance of hundreds of children. They were taken from their parents and secretly placed in orphanages, many under false identities. This Times investigation reveals the internal workings of the operation — and how one family fought to reunite.
This article explores how New York lawmakers have approved a bill that would bring greater transparency to “hidden foster care,” a practice where child welfare agencies pressure parents to place their children with relatives or others outside the formal foster care system, often without court oversight or access to legal protections.
This article explains how the Trump administration has renewed its attempt to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, a foundational policy dating back to the 1990s that mandates humane treatment and limits detention duration (to 72 hours) of migrant children held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).