The Better Care Network is an interagency network facilitating global information exchange and collaboration on the issue of children without adequate family care.
The global hub of knowledge to facilitate action for children without family care
COVID-19 Resource Center
Resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
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Ukraine Response
This section includes
resources, news and other key documents related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries.
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The Global Campaign on Children's Care Reform
This section focuses on the Global Campaign on Children's Reform. It focuses on why the campaign matters, who can join the movement, and how to get involved.
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Visit the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative, aimed at establishing more strategic sector-wide collaboration.
Visit the resource hub on transforming systems of care, including the transitioning of residential care services.
Cross sectoral global coalition working to redirect funding away from orphanages towards family strengthening and address the issues of orphanage voluntourism and orphanage trafficking.
Browse the Practitioner Hub
Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
The July 2026 Better Care Network newsletter highlights new research, tools, and learning opportunities focused on children without adequate family care. This edition features a recent webinar on addressing social norms in transition practice, the Children's Climate Risk Report from UNICEF, a Therapeutic Toolkit for Migrating and Separated Youth, and much more.
This article describes how Syrian families are increasingly taking in abandoned children—often found in public places due to war, poverty, and social stigma—providing them with care and a sense of belonging despite legal and financial challenges. The article highlights both the compassion driving informal fostering arrangements and the systemic barriers, including restrictions on formal adoption and lack of documentation, that leave many children in uncertain long-term situations.
This toolkit provides tools and resources to service providers working with unaccompanied and separated children across various contexts. The toolkit presents research and background on the experiences, needs, and strengths of unaccompanied and separated children, and specific considerations for how service providers may support children’s long-term well-being and resilience while providing needed services.
This technical brief highlights parenting support strategies and interventions that can benefit parents and help them create better spaces for children with developmental delays and disabilities to thrive. The brief includes data on children with developmental delays and disabilities and features country examples from around the world.
This foster care awareness campaign video, developed by Child in Family Focus Kenya (CFFK) in collaboration with Zaidi Ya Dreams and the State Department for Children Services, shines a light on the importance of foster care in Kenya and the urgent need for children to grow up in safe, loving family environments. The video aims to create awareness and deepen understanding of foster care in Kenya.