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.
"At least 8,800 migrant children who arrived at the southern border without their parents have been swiftly expelled from the country and denied U.S. refuge during the pandemic under an emergency policy," according to this article from CBS News.
According to this article from BBC News, the children's commissioner for England has called for a ban on placing under-18s in care in unregulated homes amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation.
"As an autistic care leaver, the hardest part of dealing with the Covid pandemic has been the neglect and lack of support I have experienced at my accommodation," writes Kerrie Portman in the Guardian.
"For untold numbers of women and children around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has meant a twofold threat: The risk of catching a deadly virus coupled with the peril of being locked in confined spaces with increasingly violent abusers," says this article from the Washington Post.
"The Proprietor of an Orphanage home in Ile-Ife, Mrs Elizabeth Oroyemi slumped as Osun State Government officials sealed the social facility over suspected illegal activities, including being used as baby factory," says this article from Vanguard.
"Hundreds of migrant children have been held in hotels and guarded by government contractors in recent months as part of a secretive new system that advocates warn puts kids in danger," says this article from CNN.
This article from the Conversation draws attention to the large number of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in Australia and offers recommendations on how to better support Indigenous careleavers.
A collaborative team between The Jakarta Post and Tirto.id have uncovered facts that confirm that both the state and the Catholic Church allowed a suspected child molester who was running an orphanage in Depok West Java "to walk free from police detention to celebrate Christmas, and a few months later set up a new orphanage and live among vulnerable boys again," according to this article from the Jakarta Post.
"Technical experts met Wednesday, 26th August to chart pathways for addressing the challenges faced by children on the move within the African continent," according to this press release from the African Union.
Rachel James, a 21 year-old woman from Somerset, UK, has taken on the care of a brother and sister under the age of two after hearing that emergency, short-term foster carers were needed during the pandemic, according to this article from BBC News. She is believed to be the youngest foster carer in the area.