The cloud of the global pandemic has left everyone scratching around for silver linings. But they are there if you...During remote learning, parents became my co-teachers. Now I want to keep that partnership going.
A new report by the UK’s Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel is urgently calling for new tools to help prevent...‘Support frontline workers in helping parents struggling with safer sleeping advice
Children are too rarely asked their perspectives on public spaces. Traditionally, adults make choices for children, particularly about how they...Public places through kids’ eyes – what do they value?
Beyond the rainbows: the missing voices of children and young people in this pandemic
Children and young people’s lives have changed beyond recognition. Not only have schools and universities closed, but fundamental life events and experiences have been missed. They have made these sacrifices without revolt or complaint –...Read more
Child in the City webinar: Introducing…Tim Gill
One of the most damaging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic for children has been the loss of one of the most basic things they take for granted – being able to play freely outside.Read more
User-friendly UN Resolution document on rights for children without parental care
SOS Children’s Villages International has launched a user-friendly version of the 2019 UN Resolution on the Rights of the Child focusing on children without parental care.Read more
Vancouver’s youth urged to help shape the city’s future
How do you map out a city’s future? For decision-makers in Vancouver, it could turn out to be as easy as child’s play.Read moreYoung Planners Vancouver DRAFT
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EndeavorRX: The video game doctors can prescribe to help children with ADHD
EndeavorRX has become the world’s first video game that can be legally marketed and prescribed as medication for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Several years in the making, it has now been awarded a...Read more
WHO and UNICEF: ‘Alarming decline’ in child vaccinations during pandemic
The World Health Organization and UNICEF has warned of an ‘alarming decline’ in the number of children receiving life-saving vaccines around the world. They say this is due to disruptions in the delivery and uptake of immunization...Read more
Kids’ physical activity before the age of five matters so much because of the developing brain
In the current pandemic many parents of young children are finding themselves spending more time in the role of caregiver than usual. Keeping young children physically active and miminizing screen time while parents manage work...Read more
Gurugram’s youth: ‘Give us safer streets’
India accounts for almost 12 per cent of the 1.35 million road fatalities worldwide. But this public health crisis does not affect everyone equally. Children and young people are at heightened risk. In fact, road crashes...Read more
EU Summit: leaders urged to ‘rescue’ children from poverty
European Union leaders have been told they must initiate a rescue plan now to help pull vulnerable children out of poverty. The call has come from hundreds of organisations and individuals acting under the umbrella of...Read more
New cities for Urban95 in Brazil
The Bernard van Leer Foundation has partnered with Brazil’s Sustainable Cities Institute to extend the country’s Urban95 network by a further 11 cities.Read more