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.
According to this article from the Herald, the Independent Scottish Care Review has calculated that the cost of the care system letting down children and their families is £1.6 billion.
This article for The Herald Scotland describes the recently launched Scottish Independent Care Review as "a once-in-a-generation scrutiny of our care system, with far-reaching recommendations for change. It is not unreasonable to expect that other countries might look upon it as a model for their own systems."
"Ten years ago, Parliament demanded that the Home Office, in all of its immigration and asylum functions, must promote and protect the welfare of children," says Lucy Leon, Policy & Practice Adviser – Refugee & Migrant Children at The Children’s Society in this guest blog post for the Refugee Council. "But a decade later some policies still fail in this duty, particularly the one that makes it almost impossible for child refugees, alone in the UK, to be reunited with their family."
This article from the Guardian describes a new venture started by social entrepreneur Helen Costa to "help adopters, foster carers, social workers, teachers and judges understand the impact of attachment-related trauma on a child, 'and the response we need from the grownups,'"
"Orphanage tourism turns children into cash-generating commodities subject to the usual economic laws of supply and demand," say Peter Singer and Leigh Mathews in this commentary piece for Project Syndicate.
"The [South Australian] Department for Child Protection will spend millions shifting a program that provides support for kinship carers to the private sector, as part of a State Government push to better connect Aboriginal children in care with their culture," says this article from In Daily.
This article from KQED "looks back at some key moments" from the past few years of the U.S. government initiative to separate families at the border with Mexico and the "many legal challenges to stop it."
This blog post from the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children explains the Initiative's in-depth review of states committed to prohibition of corporal punishment.
In this article for the Guardian, Hannah Walker, a social worker and life story book worker, writes about the use of life story books for children who have been adopted.
The article features an interview with Hirokazu Yoshikawa, a developmental psychologist at New York University who codirects NYU’s Global TIES for Children, in which he speaks about the research that he and his colleagues have conducted into the impacts of parent-child separation and the efficacy of programs meant to help heal the damage.