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.
Midwife Siro Devi is one of several Indian midwives who were regularly pressured to murder newborn girls in India's district of Katihar during the 1990s. In this story, she is reunited with Monica, a child who was saved by Siro and her fellow midwives after being abandoned as a baby during this same period.
A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s.
The Chinese government is ending its intercountry adoption program, and the U.S. is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of American families with pending applications.
All under-18s have now been removed from Scotland's young offenders institutions and transferred to more child-friendly settings. The change follows suicides of young people while detained and the passage of a new law that bans children being sent to prison.
Historical discrimination, reduced resources, cultural misunderstandings, and legal uncertainties create a challenging environment for migrant families
Doing away with the rule that limited foster care to married couples, the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry has now permitted single individuals — including those who are unmarried, widowed, divorced, or legally separated — aged 35 to 60 years, to foster a child and adopt after two years, according to the recently released revised Model Foster Care Guidelines.
A new foster care campaign has launched in Western Australia that embraces inclusivity, via Initiative Media.
The Government of Kenya, through partners and other stakeholders, is scaling up the National Care Reform Strategy that seeks to transition about 85,000 children in more than 900 institutions to family and community-based care.
Victoria is removing more First Nations children from their families than any other state in the country, and at almost twice the national rate, according to new data from the Productivity Commission.
The Cambodia Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation launched its “Policy on Alternative Care for Children” to further prioritise the well-being of all children in Cambodia, including those whose circumstances require that they be cared for outside of a traditional family environment.