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.
A major plan containing 80 actions to improve the lives of children, young people and families in and around the edges of care in Scotland has been published. The ‘Keeping The Promise Implementation Plan’ aims to significantly reduce the number of children in care, with at least £500 million over this Parliamentary term to help families stay together.
The Chinese government is weaving an even stronger protection net for women and children, with a resolute stance voiced and tough measures pledged against human trafficking.
The Trump-era policy was used to expel over 200,000 immigrant families and asylum-seekers
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 4 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded the country
Social worker Taryn LaMaison is a state worker in Louisiana who provides hands-on guidance for 18- to 21-year-olds who are no longer in traditional foster care because they have officially aged out of the system. She’s what’s known as a LifeSet specialist — a counselor who helps these young adults with everything from where to live to how to find a job.
Sixteen and 17-year-olds in Scotland will not be placed in young offenders institutions, under new plans. The Scottish government said it wanted to end the placement of under 18s in custody "without delay". Instead, ministers said they would fund "care-based alternatives" and shift the approach from "one of punishment to one of love and support".
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday that at least 2 million children have been forced to flee Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion. UNICEF and the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHR) said in a statement that children make up half of all refugees from the ongoing conflict that has continued for over a month.
Nine in ten children – accounting for 45 million boys and girls – below the age of 14 are subjected to violent disciplining in their homes regularly. More than half of girls, 51 per cent, are married before reaching their eighteenth birthday. Millions of children are living on the street, are out of school or trapped in hazardous child labour. To identify these children and to protect them from harm and abuse, a well-planned, trained and supported social service workforce is critical.
British Columbia's representative for children and youth says the system of funding child welfare services for Indigenous kids is "deeply flawed'' and there's an urgent need to overhaul practices to make data accessible and transparent.
Women and children fleeing Ukraine are at a heightened risk of falling into the hands of human traffickers who are exploiting the chaos and anonymity resulting from mass displacements and humanitarian crises, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned in a statement March 29.