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.
“OAfrica condemns the criminal abuse Anas has revealed at Bawjiase Orphanage and calls for the complete eradication of orphanages in the country by 2020.”
Ghanaian undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, and his team posed as volunteers at a children’s home in Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region of Ghana and uncovered abuses and corruption occurring in the orphanage. The abuses have been reported to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the home as been shut down.
In 2014, BCN was invited to join the Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG) as a Core Member and to co-chair one of its newest Technical Working Groups, Children and Care.
The foster care system in Trinidad and Tobago may soon see a significant change, according to this article from the Guardian of Trinidad and Tobago.
A new study from the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law presents finds that the United States federal government is not adequately enforcing child welfare laws and standards and that individual states are not adequately complying with these laws, says the article.
A recent study from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project has revealed that children who were placed in institutional care have an increased risk of demonstrating behaviors associated with autism, such as impaired social communication, according to the article.
Muhammadiyah, a member of Family for Every Child, has launched a new alliance with fellow Indonesian NGOs, to encourage the use of family-based alternative care for children and promote the use of institutional care only as a last result for children in Indonesia.
The government of the U.K. is considering new legislation that would permit children to remain in residential care until the age of 21, says this article from Community Care.
In Egypt, a decree has been issued to amend the 1996 Children’s Act in order to allow the placement of children into foster homes at a younger age, says the article.
In Egypt, a decree has been issued to amend the 1996 Children’s Act in order to allow the placement of children into foster homes at a younger age, says the article.