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.
El artículo de Contraeditorial presenta una entrevista con Dana Borzese, directora de Doncel, quien advierte que Argentina atraviesa un momento crítico para las infancias debido al desmantelamiento de las políticas nacionales de cuidado.
This article from the Guardian discusses the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza where thousands of children have lost one or both parents amid war, and many are severely wounded and without any surviving family.
On October 2, 2025, Kenya’s government, civil society organizations, and child protection practitioners met with Lumos Kenya to launch “costed, holistic and systematic care reform roadmaps” and case management process plans to transition children from institutional care into family‐ and community‐based care.
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.