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.
This article describes how Mission Vatsalya’s policy framework is being translated into practice through convergence—coordinated action across ministries, departments, local governance bodies, and civil society—to strengthen family‑based care and child protection systems in India.
This article reports how Los Angeles County’s foster care population has dropped sharply — about 46 % over the past five years, a sharper decline than statewide and national trends — driven largely by deliberate changes in practice and policy that aim to keep families intact rather than remove ch
This blog, from Hope and Homes for Children, argues that the new Netflix documentary Masaka Kids: A Rhythm Within—produced with the involvement of Harry and Meghan and set in a Ugandan orphanage—presents a superficially heartwarming story that risks reinforcing harmful perceptions about institutional care at a time when global leaders, including the UK, are advocating for family-based care and ending orphanages.
This article describes how thousands of adults who grew up in the UK care system continue to struggle to access their childhood care records — files that often hold the only written account of their early lives and decisions made about them.
This article reports on the introduction of the Global Child Thrive Reauthorization Act of 2025, a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Congress designed to expand and deepen early childhood development efforts in some of the world’s poorest countries.
The article reports on a key event held on 2 December 2025 at the Eurochild–hosted session at the European Parliament, marking the end of a three-year national effort in Bulgaria to shift from institutional care toward family- and community-based child protection.
This article notes how Ofsted’s annual report reveals that nine in ten councils in England are placing children in unregistered care homes, some charging up to £30,000 per week, due to a lack of available registered placements despite a record 4,010 children’s homes nationwide.
This article highlights a pilot program in Wisconsin Department of Children and Families called Wisconsin Family Keys, which provided modest financial assistance for rent and housing support to families at risk of losing their children due to housing instability, and as a result successfully kept
The BBC investigation reveals that more than 1,000 adopted children in the UK have returned to care in the past five years, exposing a hidden crisis in which adoptive parents struggling to support traumatised children face blame, threats, and inadequate help from authorities.
This article reports that, according to Save the Children, recent migration policies and border-management agreements by the European Union are endangering migrant children — especially unaccompanied minors and children fleeing conflict — by pushing asylum seekers into dangerous, often clandestin