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.
The government of Japan is considering extending foster care services to young people up to the age of 20, according to this article from the Japan Times.
In this video from the BBC, Clive Myrie reports from Ethiopia, the first stop for many Eritrean migrants en route to Europe. The video features a few of these child migrants who are waiting in Ethiopia to make their way to Europe in hopes of a better life.
Police in the Masaka District of Uganda have closed down an illegal orphanage for children under the age of 10, according to the article.
This article provides a brief overview of adoption policies in the UK since the 2000s, including the “introduction of the English Adoption and Children Act, passed in 2002, that placed the rights of the child front and centre of the English legal approach to child protection and brought English adoption practices in line with international legislation.”
This article from the BBC tells the story of Pamela Smedley, a woman who was sent to an orphanage in Australia from a children’s home in the UK in 1949, at the age of 13, on what she was told was a “day-trip.”
This article from Human Rights First highlights the harmful impact that the detention of asylum-seeking families in the US has on children.
According to this article from Color Lines, health officials in the state of Texas in the US “have been refusing to issue birth certificates to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants” and a district judge has just ruled that officials can continue to withhold these documents from children. A group of immigrant families have filed a lawsuit and the case will now proceed to trial.
A spokesperson for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity (MoC) has announced that the MoC will be terminating their adoption services in India in response to new government rules that have made it easier for single, divorced, and separated people to adopt children, according to the article.
The number of Aboriginal children in the child welfare system in the state of Western Australian has reached “crisis levels,” according to this article from PerthNow.
This article tells the story of Yahya, a young man who escaped an abusive father in rural Gambia and underwent a harrowing journey through Northern Africa, eventually arriving in Sicily in 2013.