World Health Organisation: ‘Ban smoking and vaping in school to protect young people’
Ban smoking and vaping in school to protect our young people – that’s the urgent message from the World Health Organization (WHO).Read more
New global guide for supporting road safety champions
Children remain one of the most vulnerable groups of road users, and so the LEARN Guide is a vital new resource of information and support aimed at supporting road safety advocates across the world.Read more
The pandemic is over. But American schools still aren’t the same.
On a recent Friday at Gary Comer Middle School in Chicago, you had to squint to see signs of the pandemic that upended American education just a few years ago.Read more
Child in the City World Conference 2023 – introducing…Wadha Almutawa
As we build towards our flagship conference taking place from 20-22 November, Child in the City will be previewing some of our scheduled speakers, through a mixture of presentation summaries and Q&As. Today we feature...Read more
Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – it could offer lessons for scaling up
More than 250,000 children in public primary schools in Nairobi will receive regular subsidised school meals provided by the county government. The Dishi Na County programme is Kenya’s first in an urban setting.Read more
KidsRights reaches out to young ‘changemakers’ to help affect their futures
KidsRights, the global children’s rights advocate, is using ‘edutainment’ to try and help young children actively help to change their own futures.Read more
Growing up with poverty, Illiteracy and racism ‘increases risk of contracting and succumbing to AIDS’ – Brazil study
Social determinants of health – the social conditions in which people grow up, live and work – can influence the risk of contracting AIDS and the mortality associated with the disease.Read more
Check out our exciting line up for Brussels 2023
Learning from the best practice of your professional colleagues and applying it to your particular area of expertise can have such a positive influence on the life of a child. So why not take this chance...Read more
Child in the City World Conference 2023 – introducing…Piet Tutenel
In the run-up to our flagship conference from 20-22 November, Child in the City will be previewing some of our scheduled speakers, with a mixture of Q&As and summaries of the various presentations. We kick...Read more
EU helps Bulgarian town to promote biodiversity through play
A European Union-backed environmental project in the Bulgarian town of Svilengrad has seen a new playground built on top of a dried up river. Read more
New data tool is latest step towards tackling child inequalities – Save the Children
Save the Children has launched a new data tool for generating statistics that can better highlight child inequalities and develop solutions.Read more
