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 the New York Times, recounts several stories of children in foster care in New York City, and the ways in which the foster care system has failed them.
This article reports on the money-making system of orphanages and orphan tourism in Cambodia.
Government officials of the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB) of Nepal raided an orphanage in Kathmandu that was run by an NGO, according to this article from the Rising Nepal.
Save the Children in Bangladesh, the International Organization for Migration, Plan International- Bangladesh, Winrock, the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) and United Development Initiatives for Programme Actions (UDDIPAN) organised a national convention for reducing the impact of unsafe migration on children in Bangladesh. This article presents a summary of the panel discussions as well as the recommendations and draft declaration that came out of the convention.
A new bill has recently been introduced in the United States Senate which would require school districts and child welfare agencies to work together to keep children in their original school when it is in their best interest.
This article describes a program at a prison in California, USA that allows incarcerated mothers to live with their young children in a nursery in the prison.
A 20 year-old man from the United States, Matthew Lane Durham, has been convicted of sexually abusing children at a children’s home in Kiambu County, Kenya, where he was volunteering.
The report Child Protection Index Moldova 2015: Measuring the Fulfilment of a Child’s Rights was presented at an event on 16 June 2015.
In a recent blog post, Megan Parker, co-founder of the Abide Family Center in Uganda, takes issue with Dr. Katherine Whetten’s study which found that children reared in institutional care did not fare worse than those living in family settings.
This article draws on findings from the State of the World’s Fathers 2015 report to illustrate the ways in which fathers’ involvement in caregiving for children is associated with less household violence.