News

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.

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April Dinwoodie - The Chronicle of Social Change

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).

Emma Batha - Thomson Reuters Foundation

This article describes the efforts of Kate Van Doore and other advocates to push the Australian and UK governments to help end their countries' support of orphanages overseas.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The Trust Conference 2018, hosted by Thomson Reuters Foundation, featured a conference theme on orphanage and trafficking. This video explains how orphanages have become a money-making industry which exploits children.

Nellie Peyton - Thomson Reuters Foundation

This article from Thomson Reuters Foundation highlights some of the comments made by survivors of child trafficking at the Trust Conference 2018.

Emma Batha - Thomson Reuters Foundation

"Orphanages have become a lucrative business in developing countries, leading to the trafficking of children to fill them," says this article from Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Joe Heim - Washington Post

This article from the Washington Post highlights findings from the Annie E. Casey report 'Fostering Youth Transitions,' which investigates the experiences of US youths transitioning from foster care to independent living.

LSE Careers Blog

In this guest post for the London School of Economics Volunteer Centre blog, ReThink Orphanages describes what students and volunteers can do to help end the orphanage industry. 

Miki Perkins - The Age

This article from the Age describes the work of the program Raising Expectations, which has supported care leavers in Victoria, Australia who enroll at La Trobe and Federation universities.

Karin Goodwin - The National

Who Cares? Scotland and other advocates are calling for standardised guidance to support care leavers, allowing better access to care records, according to this article from the National.

Learning Service

In this interview, Learning Service speaks with Lecturer and Coordinator of Internationalization, Marlinde Melissen, to explain why Fontys University School of Pedagogical Studies decided to take the pledge to stop offering orphanage internships.