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 article notes how Ofsted’s annual report reveals that nine in ten councils in England are placing children in unregistered care homes, some charging up to £30,000 per week, due to a lack of available registered placements despite a record 4,010 children’s homes nationwide.
This article highlights a pilot program in Wisconsin Department of Children and Families called Wisconsin Family Keys, which provided modest financial assistance for rent and housing support to families at risk of losing their children due to housing instability, and as a result successfully kept
The BBC investigation reveals that more than 1,000 adopted children in the UK have returned to care in the past five years, exposing a hidden crisis in which adoptive parents struggling to support traumatised children face blame, threats, and inadequate help from authorities.
This article reports that, according to Save the Children, recent migration policies and border-management agreements by the European Union are endangering migrant children — especially unaccompanied minors and children fleeing conflict — by pushing asylum seekers into dangerous, often clandestin
The article describes how hundreds of children across the United States have been left behind — in foster care, with relatives, or neighbors — after their Venezuelan parents were deported, often under sweeping immigration enforcement measures.
This article reports how an investigation reveals that in 2024, over 2,000 children, including 864 trafficked children (37%) and 1,501 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (13%), disappeared from care under UK local authorities, exposing alarming safeguarding failures.
This article highlights the experiences of Greenlandic families in Denmark whose children were taken into care following parental competency tests (FKUs), which critics say are culturally biased, conducted in Danish rather than Kalaallisut, and fail to reliably predict parenting ability.
The article reports that families of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia after the 2022 invasion are urgently calling for their return, saying that contact with many of the children has been cut off and that Russian authorities are ignoring pleas to facilitate reunification.
This article reports that Alf Dubs, a veteran Labour peer and former child refugee, strongly criticized the new asylum proposals by the Home Office under Shabana Mahmood, accusing the government of “using children as a weapon.” The proposed reforms include removing financial support for families
This article notes how the UK government has announced a review of the National Protocol aimed at reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of children in care and care leavers, responding to evidence that they are disproportionately cautioned or convicted compared with their peers.