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 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.
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.
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.
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.