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 Guardian shines a light on the poor conditions found in many children's home for children with disabilities in Kenya.
"Kinship care is a widespread and customary practice in South Africa, as it is elsewhere in southern Africa," says this article by Kath Hall. The laws that support families in the country, however, do not always take these practices into account.
"Griffith Law School lecturer Kate van Doore has used her keynote speech at the Trust Conference to encourage others to put an end to ‘orphanage tourism,'" says this article from Griffith News.
In this article from the Guardian, the author speaks with Michelle Oliel of Stahili Foundation and other advocates in Kenya working to combat the exploitation of children, particularly through the use of orphanages as “tourist attractions.”
"Griffith Law School lecturer Kate van Doore has used her keynote speech at the Trust Conference to encourage others to put an end to ‘orphanage tourism," according to this article from Griffith University.
In this article, Newslaundry investigates six orphanages that were shut down in the Kashmir Valley owing to abuse or poor facilities.
This article from the Atlantic explores the practice of "second-chance adoptions," children who were already adopted and whose adoptive family no longer wishes to parent them, in the United States.
This article from BBC News highlights some of the findings from a survey commissioned by the Welsh Government as part of the Bright Spots Programme to help local authorities understand what matters most to the children they look after.
This article from Thomson Reuters Foundation outlines the actions presented by Chloe Setter of Lumos at the Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Conference 2018.
This article from the Chronicle of Social Change explores the work of the Vermont Permanency Survey, a project of the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG).