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.
In a recent debate, Jamaica's Education Minister Senator Ruel Reid addressed the number of children living in alternative care in the country: in September 2016, 57 percent of children in care lived in various family-based care settings, while the remaining 43 percent (1,998 children) lived in residential care.
At convening of the Global First Ladies Alliance in New York, Rwanda's First Lady Jeannette Kagame shared the successes of Rwanda's care reform.
During the launch of Malta's public consultation on standards of adoption, the Minister of Family Affairs announced that adoptive families will benefit from up to €10,000 and be partially refunded for travel expenses.
International actors and representatives from Armenia, Ghana, Moldova, and Uganda convened in London September 11-15 2017 to learn and share experiences to inform the alternative care reform process in the four countries.
Negative headlines about children in foster care and those who care for them are only further victimizing already vulnerable children.
Inter-country adoption has been reinstated in Rwanda after government updated structures and mechanisms required under the Hague Convention.
The Government of Sri Lanka has announced an inquiry into adoption fraud following claims that thousands of babies were taken from their mothers and sold to foreign nationals in the 1980s.
This video from ReThink Orphanages illustrates how orphanage tourism perpetuates the continued institutionalization and exploitation of children.
Save the Children offers six tips on how to volunteer ethically overseas.
This Australia-based company made parental leave more flexible for mothers, fathers, and foster and kinship carers.