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 blog post from the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children explains the Initiative's in-depth review of states committed to prohibition of corporal punishment.
In this article for the Guardian, Hannah Walker, a social worker and life story book worker, writes about the use of life story books for children who have been adopted.
The article features an interview with Hirokazu Yoshikawa, a developmental psychologist at New York University who codirects NYU’s Global TIES for Children, in which he speaks about the research that he and his colleagues have conducted into the impacts of parent-child separation and the efficacy of programs meant to help heal the damage.
This editorial piece from the Guardian calls on the UK government to conduct a review of the care system, as promised in the Conservatives’ manifesto.
Nine parents who had been deported from the U.S. while their children (and other family members) remained in the country have been returned to the U.S. to be reunited with their children, according to this article from CBS News.
A new study examining data on almost half a million children in the UK who began school in September 2005, found that of the 6,240 children who entered the care system during their school years, 83% required additional special educational needs (SEN) support, according to this article from the Guardian.
This article from the Associated Press reviews some key findings from a recent analysis on foster care outcomes, compiled by researchers from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau.
According to this article from the International Business Times, the government of Haiti "is pushing to deinstitutionalize children so as to avoid the darkest sides of orphanage life -- trafficking of kids or even worse abuse."
This article from NPR describes the growing global movement to move away from orphanage care for children, and discourage orphanage visits and volunteering which often drives the separation of children from their families.
New federal legislation in Canada now allows First Nations to take control of their own child welfare, and the Saskatchewan First Nations organization is now asking the federal government to transfer funds to First Nations agencies, allowing them to set up and run high quality services in their own communities, according to this article from CBC News.