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.
Ghana is working toward reforming and strengthening the foster care and adoption procedures and, to that end, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) convened a group of stakeholders at a meeting in Accra to gather their input.
A new US federal rule, to be enacted this December, will require judges presiding over foster and adoption proceedings in every state in the country to ask about the child’s status as a tribal member, according the article.
The Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s blogging blitz is a month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering, under the hashtag #StopOrphanTrips.
The Minister of Social Affairs of Cambodia is visiting with officials in Spain and Malta to discuss intercountry adoptions of Cambodian children to those countries, according to this article from the Phnom Penh Post.
This editorial from the Toronto Star highlights the racial disproportionality in Toronto’s child welfare system and in child welfare systems across Canada.
This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. This post introduces Better Volunteering Better Care’s position paper on orphanage volunteering and highlights some of the posts from the blogging blitz.
This video is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The 3-minute video summarizes the research on how and why orphanage trips are harmful to children.
This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post explains the harms of orphanage tourism.
Uganda’s President Museveni has assented to the Children's (Amendment) Bill 2015, a bill that “seeks to strengthen the protection of children's rights and restrict legal guardianship of children to Ugandan citizens,” according to this article from All Africa.
A small town in Quebec, Canada called Kangiqsualujjuaq - a primarily Inuit town with a population of 900 people - has instituted a new program called the Qarmaapik Family House. The program was developed in response to news that the town had more children in foster care than any other community in Nunavik.