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.
A new US federal rule, to be enacted this December, will require judges presiding over foster and adoption proceedings in every state in the country to ask about the child’s status as a tribal member, according the article.
The Minister of Social Affairs of Cambodia is visiting with officials in Spain and Malta to discuss intercountry adoptions of Cambodian children to those countries, according to this article from the Phnom Penh Post.
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. This post introduces Better Volunteering Better Care’s position paper on orphanage volunteering and highlights some of the posts from the blogging blitz.
This editorial from the Toronto Star highlights the racial disproportionality in Toronto’s child welfare system and in child welfare systems across Canada.
This video 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. The 3-minute video summarizes the research on how and why orphanage trips are harmful to children.
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. The post explains the harms of orphanage tourism.
Uganda’s President Museveni has assented to the Children's (Amendment) Bill 2015, a bill that “seeks to strengthen the protection of children's rights and restrict legal guardianship of children to Ugandan citizens,” according to this article from All Africa.
A small town in Quebec, Canada called Kangiqsualujjuaq - a primarily Inuit town with a population of 900 people - has instituted a new program called the Qarmaapik Family House. The program was developed in response to news that the town had more children in foster care than any other community in Nunavik.
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. The post from Travel + Social Good describes some of the voluntourism industry’s “initiatives that are based on good intentions, but can be more detrimental than helpful for local communities.”
The state of Kentucky in the US has implemented a new program for youth aging out of foster care called 'Fostering Success.' The program “places young adults aged 18 to 23 in a 10-week office job at a local branch of the Kentucky Department for Community Based Service,” according to the article.