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.
A Guatemalan judge has found six people guilty over the deaths of 41 girls in a raging 2017 fire at a state shelter for vulnerable youths that had a history of abuse. The sentencing is a step towards closure in one of the most horrific and deadly events in Guatemalan history. The tragedy drew international attention and highlighted pervasive abuse in the government’s shelter system.
This statement by UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations Ted Chaiban notes how the rapid pace of returns to Afghanistan—peaking at over 50,000 arrivals in a single day—has overwhelmed fragile communities.
In the Solomon Islands, a whole-of-nation approach has been launched to tackle escalating child protection challenges through the Child and Family Welfare System Multi-Sectoral Implementation Plan (2025–2030).
This article explores how a new initiative launched in July 2025 in Plymouth, U.K. aims to transition children in residential care into nurturing family-based environments like foster or kinship care.
International adoptions to the United States have fallen to a record low, marking a 94 percent decline since their peak in the early 2000s. 2023 was the lowest year for international adoptions, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis based on U.S. State Department data.
A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head.
AVSI has implemented the project “HOME 2 – Ensuring protection to vulnerable children in Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast”, funded by the Italian Commission for International Adoption (CAI).
The Ogun State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Adijat Adeleye, has warned orphanage homes in the state against putting up children for adoption without getting the state government’s approval and clearance.
Children's Homes Association warns 'inexperienced providers' have driven a 15% rise in number of registered homes from 2024-25 and that children are being placed in residential care inappropriately due to fostering shortage.
CHENNAI: The Directorate of Children Welfare and Special Services (DCWSS) will soon launch a pilot initiative to strengthen family-based alternative care services for children currently residing in Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across Tamil Nadu.