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.
After escaping a highly traumatic childhood with her mom and her partner in Montague, Taylor Wilson spent the better part of her adolescence living in a group home in Charlottetown.
Theatre workshops and art classes have sprung up to offer temporary respite from war as doctors warn of widespread trauma.
Child protection workers who engage with some of the state’s most at-risk youth in Perth, Australia, participated in snap walk-outs in protest of understaffing and workload concerns.
On average, every day over the last 20 days in Ukraine, over 70,000 children have become refugees, said an UNICEF spokesperson.
A family from India froze to death just yards away from crossing into the United States from Canada. Desperate migrants are trying their luck on the northern border.
A family from India froze to death just yards away from crossing into the United States from Canada. Desperate migrants are trying their luck on the northern border.
Northern Ireland’s Children’s commissioner has expressed “great concern” about the lack of progress on mental health services for vulnerable children after figures revealed that up to 17 looked after children died over the past five years.
The number of children estimated to have experienced the death of a parent or caregiver as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has surged to more than 5.2 million globally, according to a new modeling study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. Maestral President, Philip Goldman, and Laura Rawlings detail essential measures to address this global crisis in this article.
Ukraine's Ministry of Social Policy has said interstate adoption is impossible under the current conditions, and the dissemination of such false information contains signs of fraud and a violation of children's rights.
Some surrogate mothers are trapped by the fighting as their due dates near. And newborns face uncertain fates, with many biological parents now unable to travel to Ukraine.