Better Care Network

Better Care Network (BCN) is an international network of organizations committed to supporting children without adequate family care around the world.

Mission

The mission of the BCN is to facilitate active information exchange and collaboration on the issue of children without adequate family care and advocate for technically sound policy and programmatic action on global, regional, and national levels in order to:

• Reduce instances of separation and abandonment of children;
• Reunite children outside family care with their families, wherever possible and appropriate;
• Increase, strengthen, and support family and community-based care options for children;
• Establish international and national standards for all forms of care for children without adequate family care and mechanisms for ensuring compliance; and
• Ensure that residential institutions are used in a very limited manner and only when appropriate.

What Better Care Network does

• Facilitating information exchange across members and partners
• Managing relationships and convening key partners and stakeholders to promote dialogue and action
• Supporting policy and practice through the provision of technical assistance, resources and access to a global community of care professionals.