Throughout the year, the BCN Secretariat disseminates the latest research, tools, news, videos, opportunities and events, and other resources related to children's care around the globe through its monthly newsletter. The newsletter membership has expanded from just over 300 participants in 2003 to over 5,200 across 67 countries in 2024.
Special Issues of the newsletter are also published, often in partnership with key actors in the sector, focusing on a particular theme, country or region to draw attention to the growing body of knowledge developing on the issue or context and to help busy practitioners keep abreast of learning and changes. If you want to share a resource or propose a theme for a special issue, please contact us at contact@bettercarenetwork.org
This special issue of the BCN Newsletter, a joint collaboration with Lumos and SOS Children's Villages, focuses on the issues presented by the lack of accurate and reliable national data on children living outside of family care and highlights recent efforts dedicated to ensuring all children are counted.
This special issue of the BCN Newsletter is a joint collaboration with the Opening Doors for Europe's Children campaign - a pan-European campaign advocating for strengthening families and ending institutional care.
Check out BCN's latest newsletter for recent research, tools, and briefs relevant to children's care! This edition has a particular focus on children living in and out of residential care.
This edition focuses on the UN General Assembly high level plenary meeting to address large movements of refugees and migrants, and the Leader's Summit on Refugees that were held on the 19th and 20th September in New York.
In this special edition of the newsletter, Better Care Network and Family for Every Child highlight the launch of new Guidelines on Children's Reintegration developed by an inter-agency working group.
This issue of the BCN newsletter focuses on “orphanage” voluntourism and highlights research and other publications on tourism and volunteering in children's residential care centers (or "orphanages”), including activities, updates, and new resources from the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative and its members.
In this edition, BCN announces the launch of a Special Issue of the Journal Global Social Welfare on "Measuring Better Care: Building the Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice Around Children's Care", edited by BCN and CPC Learning Network. This newsletter also explores research and news highlighting the controversial role of "Baby Boxes".
Check out BCN's latest newsletter for recent research, tools, and briefs relevant to children's care! This edition has a particular focus on care issues affecting migrant and refugee children.
Check out BCN's latest newsletter for recent research, tools, and briefs relevant to children's care! This edition has a special focus on children left behind as a result of parental migration.
BCN announces the launch of its brand new website in this special issue of the newsletter and highlights some of the new features, as well as a number of new documents and initiatives by BCN and partner organisations.
