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 Reuters article reports that the Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody a one-time stipend of US $2,500 to voluntarily return to their countries of origin.
This news article reports that South Korea has formally joined the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, over 30 years after the treaty’s adoption.
This news story from CBC Canada explores how Ukrainian officials say 19,000 children have been forcibly transferred to Russia since the war began, including many with complicated health issues.
This Washington Post article focuses on how ICE officers are ramping up arrests in the United States, leaving hundreds of migrant children to be sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation.
The article reports that New Zealand has temporarily suspended recognition of many international adoptions — especially those from Samoa — citing concerns over cases of abuse after children adopted overseas arrived in New Zealand.
In this news video, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Khan Younis, Palestine. The toll of the ongoing conflict in Gaza is laid bare through the stories of orphaned children and grieving families.
The article argues that the system of children’s residential care in the UK is failing to meet the needs of young people, pointing to persistent evidence that many children do worse in residential homes than in alternative arrangements.
This BBC article covers a National Audit Office (NAO) report showing that the cost of residential care for vulnerable children in England has nearly doubled in five years to £3.1bn, with councils spending an average of £318,400 per child annually, yet many children are still plac
In this news article, the BBC explores how hundreds of children of Syria’s political detainees were taken from their families during the Assad regime and placed in orphanages, many run by SOS Children’s Villages International.
This article exposes horrific abuse and neglect uncovered at a state-run children’s home in Szolnok, Hungary, where children reportedly endured physical violence, sexual abuse, filthy living conditions, and staff indifference to their complaints.