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 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.
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.
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.
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.
In this opinion piece from the Hill, Daniel Heimpel, the publisher of The Chronicle of Social Change, reveals that kinship caregivers in the US "are routinely denied payments and systemically diverted from important resources."
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.
This blog post from Friends International highlights the work and progress made by its ChildSafe campaigns, which aim to "end the plight of the thousands of children who have been unnecessarily placed into residential care in orphanages."
Police in Peru have recently uncovered a child trafficking ring which convinced poor women to hand over their babies and then sold them, according to this article from BBC News.
More than 30 Aboriginal groups and community legal centres have co-signed an open letter censuring proposed adoption laws in Australia and calling on the government to reconsider, according to this article from the Sydney Morning Herald.
On 7 November the leading liberal party in the Netherlands, the VVD (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie), released a white paper proposal (‘initiatiefnota’) on measures to combat orphanage tourism.