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.
Safety parents – charged with the temporary care of children in emergency cases – have called on the government for much-needed financial support. The Department of Social Development said as many as 1 300 children had been placed in the care of safety parents in the province.
LIFE inside an orphanage is an emotional roller-coaster—“always testing the tested”—Musaib says without blinking an eye. The orphan yet to observe his 18th birthday narrates his nightmare that comes to haunt his stay in the house of orphans. The nightmare starts with an Azaan that suddenly turns into a resounding scream. A siren-wailing ambulance can be heard next in that dusk hour. It unsettles Musaib who leaves his prayers and embraces his mother tightly.
More than 5m people have fled the Russian invasion, and many have carried with them trauma and loss. That has been compounded by the economic stress of living abroad, and by family separation—Ukrainian men aged 18-60 must stay and help defend their country. The World Health Organisation (who) estimated in March that at least half a million refugees were suffering from mental-health issues.
Millions of children across Ukraine have had to flee their homes since the war there began. For some, it’s an even harder journey, because they don’t have their parents with them. One children’s home on the eastern front line had to move all of their children hundreds of miles across the country to keep them safe. Among them is 11-year-old Angelina, who’s now trying to make a new life in the western city of Lviv.
Inside a cavernous stone fortress in downtown Pittsburgh, attorney Robin Frank defends parents at one of their lowest points—when they risk losing their children. The job is never easy, but in the past she knew what she was up against when squaring off against child protective services in family court. Now, she worries she’s fighting something she can’t see: an opaque algorithm whose statistical calculations help social workers decide which families should be investigated in the first place.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a decision providing for the payment of subsistence assistance in the amount of UAH 3,000 per month to children who are internally displaced and moved without being accompanied by a legal representative.
Saskatchewan's advocate for children and youth released her 2021 annual report this week, highlighting the continued pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic on kids' mental health.
A new set of Alaska court rules will give youths in foster care more opportunities to have a lawyer represent what they want to happen with their cases — and their lives.
Just over the zigzag pathway of the Tijuana border crossing, a mile or so from the taco and churros stands that feed locals and tourists alike, past the indigenous women sitting on the sun-scorched sidewalk and begging for change with infants at their breasts, rests a pop-up encampment for Ukrainian and Russian refugees fleeing an invasion they could neither endure nor support.
In the last two years, Canada and several U.S. states have begun to recognize their histories with Native American boarding schools, institutions that set out to “assimilate” Native American children into westernized U.S. ways of life by stripping them of Indigenous tradition and culture.