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.
Emma Batha - Thomson Reuters Foundation14 Nov 2018
This article describes the efforts of Kate Van Doore and other advocates to push the Australian and UK governments to help end their countries' support of orphanages overseas.
This article from the Washington Post highlights findings from the Annie E. Casey report 'Fostering Youth Transitions,' which investigates the experiences of US youths transitioning from foster care to independent living.
This article from the Age describes the work of the program Raising Expectations, which has supported care leavers in Victoria, Australia who enroll at La Trobe and Federation universities.
In this guest post for the London School of Economics Volunteer Centre blog, ReThink Orphanages describes what students and volunteers can do to help end the orphanage industry.
Who Cares? Scotland and other advocates are calling for standardised guidance to support care leavers, allowing better access to care records, according to this article from the National.
In this opinion piece from the Hill, Daniel Heimpel, the publisher of The Chronicle of Social Change, reveals that kinship caregivers in the US "are routinely denied payments and systemically diverted from important resources."
This blog post from Friends International highlights the work and progress made by its ChildSafe campaigns, which aim to "end the plight of the thousands of children who have been unnecessarily placed into residential care in orphanages."
In this interview, Learning Service speaks with Lecturer and Coordinator of Internationalization, Marlinde Melissen, to explain why Fontys University School of Pedagogical Studies decided to take the pledge to stop offering orphanage internships.
Police in Peru have recently uncovered a child trafficking ring which convinced poor women to hand over their babies and then sold them, according to this article from BBC News.
Harold Goodwin - WTM Responsible Travel Blog7 Nov 2018
The World Travel Market has awarded its World Responsible Tourism Awards, including a silver award for 'Best for Communicating Responsible Tourism' to ReThink Orphanages Australia.