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.
Nearly three dozen unregistered children's homes in Chennai, India were asked to shut down until they obtain legal registration. A total of 1,250 children from 34 homes were rehabilitated from the temporarily closed homes into some of the 49 registered homes in the city where there reportedly is spare capacity.
Following allegations that a home in Kerala, India had misappropriated funds and detained children, including 54 from Tamil Nadu, a child welfare committee in Ernakulam has directed the institution to trace their biological families.
Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) describes a new research venture to identify and share examples of best practice regarding social work cases that cross international borders.
As the Trump administration promises to deport a broader range of people, undocumented immigrant families with disabled children are seeking help to stay in the U.S. to access proper medical care for their sick children.
A multitude of complaints against Trinidad's Children's Authority spurs investigation.
Children orphaned by Boko Haram Islamists are overcrowding the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, whose population has doubled to over two million due to those seeking shelter from the conflict.
Turkey has opened a vast centre, termed "Orphans City," dedicated to housing and educating orphans from war-torn Syria.
The number of refugee children traveling alone has increased fivefold since 2010, UNICEF has said. The UN body warned that the alarming trend has forced many young refugees and migrants into prostitution and slavery.
Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls.
Lending a helping hand in countries with poor health infrastructure is usually well intentioned—but it can cause serious harm.