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.
Tens of thousands of displaced children in Ukraine — as well as refugee children in surrounding nations — need financial and medical assistance from overseas and not adoption bids, experts in the field said this week.
A major shift in the delivery of foster care could result in hundreds of children repatriated to their Manitoba communities as more Indigenous governments are expected to take jurisdiction over child welfare from the province.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a two-week halt in the phasing out of pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum and raised doubts about the Biden administration’s plan to fully lift those restrictions on May 23.
People in England and Wales must now be aged 18 and over to get married.
A heartbreaking human drama is playing out along Ukraine's borders -- fleeing refugees pass the homesick going back, while others who left and then returned flee for their lives for a second time.
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.
A record number of children and young people in England have sought mental health support, according to new analysis.
South Australia has the highest rate of separating brothers and sisters in care in the country, research shows, prompting child protection advocates and the minister in charge to call for sweeping reform to keep families together.
The number of care services and institutions in The Gambia which could respond to the needs of children on the move where they are is extremely limited and underresourced. Most often, care arrangements are made informally in the communities. Child migrants identified are often handed over to the police. Access to food and accommodation services also poses significant challenges.
The UNHCR projects that some 8.3 million refugees will leave Ukraine, and the agency is calling for more financial support for them and their host countries.