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.
Ahead of a second summit of global leaders and Nobel laureates on children’s rights in Jordan, Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi stated that children are more vulnerable now than ever to trafficking "due to conflicts and natural disasters with millions without homes or families," according to this article from Reuters.
New York City government officials have released a plan to increase kinship care placements in the city, according to this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.
This article from NITV examines Australia's history of forcibly removing indigenous children from their families, and criminalizing them for it.
A foster care group home in Kansas, USA housing 10 teenage girls in care, Carla's Youth Residential Center, has been closed due to suspected physical and sexual abuse and the facility, according to this article from U.S. News & World Report.
This article from Daiji World shines light on the number of unregistered children's homes in India and the importance of registering these institutions to curb the vulnerability to child trafficking.
This article from the Washington Post tells the story of a family, and others like them, who migrated from El Salvador to the United States and were separated upon crossing into the US.
Act 4 of this episode of 'This American Life' describes the way that US immigration policy has separated families by parental deportation, with a particular focus on parents originally from Latin America.
This article from the Epoch Times describes the continued risk of child trafficking in intercountry adoption procedures, and the recent trends of some countries to ban foreign adoptions.
According to this article, the Latvian government is seeking to raise the minimum age at which children living in institutions in the country can be sent abroad to stay with a "host family" in the US.
In this opinion piece from Youth Today, Bill Baccaglini - president and CEO of The New York Foundling, one of the oldest and largest organizations in New York serving at-risk youth and their families - writes about the need for child welfare practitioners to "think more expansively" about their missions.