This is an update on the ISS-USA Regional Conference in Guatemala.  

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

A recent independent review, chaired by Lord Laming of the UK, has found that half of children in the criminal justice system in the UK have been in care at some point. 

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. In this post, the author shares her top five tips for being a responsible, child safe aware traveller.

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. In this post, the author shares four reasons why to categorically discourage all volunteering at ‘orphanages.’

In this post, the author explains that when families volunteer at, or visit, orphanages, “rather than setting a good example for their children, parents are helping to perpetuate, and sometimes aggravate, serious problems.”

This article from the Telegraph refers to an interview on BBC Today with Dave Coles, Coordinator of the London School of Economics Volunteer Centre. The article shares Coles’ remarks from the BBC interview on how volunteering helps fuel the problem of family separation in the developing world.

This episode of BBC Today Radio features an interview with Dave Coles, Coordinator of the London School of Economics Volunteer Centre, who wrote a piece as part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering.

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. In this post, the author explains why Unquote Travel does not offer orphanage volunteering or orphanage tourism trips.

Providing educative help at home means that professionals have to enter into the intimacy of families and share daily tasks often for a long time. Family support workers spend many hours alongside parents, helping them with their domestic and parenting tasks.