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 talk by Lucy Hurst-Brown from BBC Radio 4's, Four Thought series discusses the institutionalization, segregation, and isolation of people with disabilities, including young people, and its effects.
The purpose of this community of learning is to strengthen awareness and capacities of organisations on M&E of reintegration, to be able to monitor children’s and adolescents’ well-being to inform organisational programming and policy making.
This article from the BBC shares the stories of children in Greece who have been removed from their families and are being held at hospitals for months at a time.
This Op-Ed piece from the New York Times offers harsh criticism of the U.S. and Mexican policy that sends young refugees back to the communities they are risking their lives to escape.
This article from the Guardian shares the story of Ilona, a young woman who immigrated to the UK from Hungary. and placed her baby for adoption in the UK. The article explains how cases like these have grown in recent years and how they will be affected by the UK's departure from the EU.
In the article, the author argues that more openness in foster care arrangements is beneficial to children’s wellbeing as well as to their foster and biological families.
This article discusses the US Ambassador's visit to an Armenian orphanage, Armenia’s goal to deinstitutionalize children and research from UNICEF indicating that 97% of children in Armenian orphanages come from vulnerable families and have at least one living parent.
The Government of Nauru has introduced a new Child Protection and Welfare Act which has been welcomed by UNICEF for “bringing Nauru into alignment with many international standards.”
This six-part video series from the BBC highlights the discrimination and challenges that poor women of color face in the child welfare system in New York City.
The Ministry for Families and Children of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia has announced it will invest nearly $3 million over two years to fund initiatives to reduce the number of Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care in Victoria.