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.
During the launch of Malta's public consultation on standards of adoption, the Minister of Family Affairs announced that adoptive families will benefit from up to €10,000 and be partially refunded for travel expenses.
Negative headlines about children in foster care and those who care for them are only further victimizing already vulnerable children.
Inter-country adoption has been reinstated in Rwanda after government updated structures and mechanisms required under the Hague Convention.
This video from ReThink Orphanages illustrates how orphanage tourism perpetuates the continued institutionalization and exploitation of children.
The Government of Sri Lanka has announced an inquiry into adoption fraud following claims that thousands of babies were taken from their mothers and sold to foreign nationals in the 1980s.
Save the Children offers six tips on how to volunteer ethically overseas.
Lagos government has announced its concerns about institutionalization and the state's consideration of a review of adoption processes to address current practice gaps.
This Australia-based company made parental leave more flexible for mothers, fathers, and foster and kinship carers.
17.5% of children who need care in Japan live in foster placements, while most of them are living in institutions; an expert panel of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, however, has announced a new goal which prioritizes foster care.
Charity donations to orphanages are causing children harm, says Felicity Hannah in this piece for the UK's Independent.