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 describes how thousands of adults who grew up in the UK care system continue to struggle to access their childhood care records — files that often hold the only written account of their early lives and decisions made about them.
The article reports on a key event held on 2 December 2025 at the Eurochild–hosted session at the European Parliament, marking the end of a three-year national effort in Bulgaria to shift from institutional care toward family- and community-based child protection.
This article reports on the introduction of the Global Child Thrive Reauthorization Act of 2025, a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Congress designed to expand and deepen early childhood development efforts in some of the world’s poorest countries.
This article notes how Ofsted’s annual report reveals that nine in ten councils in England are placing children in unregistered care homes, some charging up to £30,000 per week, due to a lack of available registered placements despite a record 4,010 children’s homes nationwide.
This article highlights a pilot program in Wisconsin Department of Children and Families called Wisconsin Family Keys, which provided modest financial assistance for rent and housing support to families at risk of losing their children due to housing instability, and as a result successfully kept
The BBC investigation reveals that more than 1,000 adopted children in the UK have returned to care in the past five years, exposing a hidden crisis in which adoptive parents struggling to support traumatised children face blame, threats, and inadequate help from authorities.
This article reports that, according to Save the Children, recent migration policies and border-management agreements by the European Union are endangering migrant children — especially unaccompanied minors and children fleeing conflict — by pushing asylum seekers into dangerous, often clandestin
The article describes how hundreds of children across the United States have been left behind — in foster care, with relatives, or neighbors — after their Venezuelan parents were deported, often under sweeping immigration enforcement measures.
This article reports how an investigation reveals that in 2024, over 2,000 children, including 864 trafficked children (37%) and 1,501 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (13%), disappeared from care under UK local authorities, exposing alarming safeguarding failures.
This article highlights the experiences of Greenlandic families in Denmark whose children were taken into care following parental competency tests (FKUs), which critics say are culturally biased, conducted in Danish rather than Kalaallisut, and fail to reliably predict parenting ability.