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 news article discusses how high-level representatives – including ministers, senior decision-makers, professionals, and children – from across the European Union and the wider Europe and Central Asia region met on October 13, 2025 in Bucharest for a two-day regional ministerial conference de
The piece argues that while the U.S. Family First Prevention Services Act was designed to promote in-home supports and carefully prevent children’s removal, its implementation has often fallen short—especially where oversight, funding equity, and culturally-responsive services are lacking.
This article highlights New Zealand’s kinship care movement, where relatives or close family friends step in to care for children when parents are unable to.
This Wall Street Journal article recounts the unraveling of Sovann Komar (“Golden Children”), a Cambodian orphanage founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Ross Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and her local collaborator Sothea Arun.
El artículo de Contraeditorial presenta una entrevista con Dana Borzese, directora de Doncel, quien advierte que Argentina atraviesa un momento crítico para las infancias debido al desmantelamiento de las políticas nacionales de cuidado.
This article from the Guardian discusses the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza where thousands of children have lost one or both parents amid war, and many are severely wounded and without any surviving family.
On October 2, 2025, Kenya’s government, civil society organizations, and child protection practitioners met with Lumos Kenya to launch “costed, holistic and systematic care reform roadmaps” and case management process plans to transition children from institutional care into family‐ and community‐based care.
This Reuters article reports that the Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody a one-time stipend of US $2,500 to voluntarily return to their countries of origin.
This news article reports that South Korea has formally joined the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, over 30 years after the treaty’s adoption.
This news story from CBC Canada explores how Ukrainian officials say 19,000 children have been forcibly transferred to Russia since the war began, including many with complicated health issues.