During the pandemic, children have been separated from family and friends, schools have been closed and there have been limitations...We asked children around the world what they knew about COVID. This is what they said.
Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, is piloting a new initiative to transform lanes and alleyways into child-friendly green spaces...‘Safe Play Lanes’ for Cardiff’s UNICEF child-friendly city goal
A teacher in Newark trudges through the snow to find students who haven’t logged into her all-remote class, a sad...A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, school as we know it has been transformed
Play during lockdown – by Sumaya, 10
A 10-year-old girl’s experiences of play during lockdown in Wales has shone a light on just how important play is to youngsters, both for their pleasure and physical & mental health.Read more
UK nursery workers need more support to help children with ‘challenging backgrounds’
Many UK-based nursery (day care) staff say they are finding it difficult to manage children with ‘extremely complex backgrounds and challenging emotional and behavioural needs’. A survey of nursery workers for the Anna Freud National Centre...Read more
Thousands of children speak up about their future hopes and fears
A survey of more than 10,000 children has revealed that one in five are ‘unhappy’ and ‘anxious for the future’.Read more
UNICEF: Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year
UNICEF has unveiled a ‘Pandemic Classroom’ at the HQ of the United Nations in New York to urge governments worldwide to prioritise the reopening of schools Schools which are normally the second home for 168 million...Read more
EU countries moving towards ‘pedestrian-friendly’ future
Children who walk or cycle to school in Berlin will benefit from a newly-passed pedestrian law in the city designed to shift the priority away from cars and towards the interests of vulnerable road users.Read more
Playgrounds in Wales must now be smoke-free – by law
A new law is now in place that requires playgrounds in Wales to be smoke-free.Read more
Beyond multi-stakeholder tokenism: promoting children’s rights in a digital age
‘About one in three internet users today are children. These are the lucky ones: the children whose parents or guardians can afford devices and data that allow them to continue their schooling at a time when...Read more
UNICEF Signs COVID vaccine agreement With Astrazeneca
Children’s charity UNICEF and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have signed a long-term agreement for the supply of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca on behalf of the COVAX Facility. Read more
‘Power of Play’ online conference rescheduled for April
The Children and Childhood Network at the University of Birmingham has rearranged its upcoming Power of Play conference, which was earlier postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Read more
Child poverty in the U.S. could be slashed by monthly payments to parents – an idea proved in other rich countries and proposed decades ago
Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that would have provided many families with children a monthly stipend? It may surprise you that it came in 1969 from Richard Nixon,...Read more
Homeschooling: links with inequality are far from new
In 2020, the pandemic has made homeschooling a fact of life. Even before this, though, what was once the obscure choice of a few families has grown in popularity over the past decade. In 2019,...Read more