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.
Amendements to the 2015 Australian Border Force Act, which previously threatened immigration detention centre workers with two years in prison if they spoke out about neglect or abuse, have been introduced.
A pilot project is running five investigations of child sexual abuse in Bali, including two investigations at orphanages where staff are believed to be sexually abusing the children in their care.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court called on government to create an action plan to address the deficiencies in the state's orphanage homes.
Catholic Relief Services has released a video portraying a mother's inner struggle while making the decision to leave her child to the care of an orphanage, promoting their joint project Changing the Way We Care and calling on viewers to rethink their support for orphanages.
Malaysian NGO OrphanCare reports that orphanages are reluctant to work with baby hatch centers, which seek to find permanent homes for abandoned babies, due to fear that they will not have enough children to maintain the institutions once they give them up for adoption.
A Canadian study found that 3 in 5 homeless youth had experience with the child welfare system, a rate 193 times higher than the general public.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has called for urgent action to reintegrate children and psychiatric detainees who have been living in institutions into their communities.
This blog post underlines the issues with orphanage volunteering and tourism, including its developmental and emotional impact on children and how it fuels the continuation of orphanages and diverts resources away from family preservation and reunification.
The Create Foundation is carrying out a survey to record the experiences and perspectives of young people who have lived in Australia's care system.
Most children living in India's residential care institutions have a family; over the past six months, actors have come together to reform the child care system in Odisha state away from orphanages and toward family-based care.