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 a new bipartisan U.S. congressional report finds that children with mental health needs are often incarcerated in juvenile detention centers across the country—sometimes without having committed any crime—because community-based mental health care and placement options are severely limited or unavailable.
This article describes how French authorities have issued a rare international appeal for victims and witnesses in the case of 79-year-old former educator Jacques Leveugle, accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 children across five continents over more than five decades while working in roles that brought him into contact with young people — including as an educator in a children’s home in Bogotá, Colombia — highlighting concerns about long-term abuse in settings where children, including those living without family care, can be particularly vulnerable.
This article tells the story of Nigerian missionaries Olusola and Chinwe Stevens, who have spent three decades rescuing babies and young children in central Nigeria from harmful traditional beliefs that label them as “cursed” and sometimes lead to infanticide.
This opinion piece argues that despite global commitments under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the world is failing to safeguard children from violence, exploitation, and neglect, with an estimated one billion girls and boys experiencing
This article notes how in an audience with the organizing committee of “From Crisis to Care: Catholic Action for Children,” Pope Leo XIV renewed the Catholic Church’s call for urgent, coordinated global action to uphold children’s rights and protect them from danger, emphasizing that des
The Government of Malta, through the Ministry for Social Policy and Children's Rights, is close to launching a formal After-Care Policy to support young people leaving residential alternative care, aiming to offer them stability, opportunities, and continued support beyond childhood services.
This article talks about how the Western Cape Department of Social Development in South Africa has launched a new Independent Living pilot programme aimed at supporting young adults as they exit alternative care after turning 18, addressing the gap that exists when state support ends at adulthood
This article describes how the U.S.
In this reflective blog by UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, he marks the first anniversary of the Global Campaign on Children’s Care Reform, launched to promote global action towards ending institutional care and ensuring every child grows up in a safe, nurturing family.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears its fourth year, thousands of children have been orphaned, wounded, displaced, or forced into adult roles, with their lives unfolding in hospitals, temporary homes, and courtrooms far from the front lines.