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.
The Kenyan government has announced a plan to gradually reintegrate about 44,000 children currently living in private orphanages and children’s homes back to their families by 2032, under its 10‑year National Care Reform Strategy.
The article reports that President Trump secured $25 million in federal funding to strengthen support for youth in foster care, particularly focusing on those aging out of the system who often face heightened risks of homelessness, unemployment, and social marginalization.
This article describes how the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in Ireland, Norma Foley, has announced the start of a consultation process for the forthcoming “National Policy Framework on Alternative Care” which aims to shape Ireland’s approach for the approximately 5,000 children
This Guardian article tells the story of Craig, who became homeless at 13 after running away from a children’s home in Nottingham.
The piece reveals how children born to unmarried mothers in Saudi Arabia are routinely denied legal status, proper birth registration, healthcare and education because their existence challenges strict societal and legal norms.
This article describes how Lumos, founded by J.K.
The article highlights how Moldova has dramatically reduced the number of children in institutional care from around 17,000 to just 700, with an ambitious goal of closing all orphanage‑style institutions by 2027.
This article reports that the Czech Republic has passed a law, signed in July 2025 and coming into effect on 1 January 2026, explicitly prohibiting all corporal punishment of children in every setting — home, school, day care, alternative care and penal institutions — thereby formalizing a legal
This article from BBC discusses how a number of individuals adopted as children into the United States are now at risk of deportation because their citizenship status was never formally secured. It highlights personal stories of adoptees who, despite growing up in the U.S.
In the piece, the Association of Orphanages and Homes Operators of Nigeria (ASOHON) Southern Nigeria chapter calls for stronger collaboration between orphanage operators, government agencies and other stakeholders to build a more inclusive, family‑oriented child‑care system in Nigeria.