New technical guidance published by children’s charity UNICEF examines some of the key global factors around child and adolescent road safety.Read more
With an estimated population of 4.5 million, Abidjan is the biggest city in Côte d’Ivoire and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris and Kinshasa. Every day, the Abidjan metropolitan area produces 288 tons of...Read more
Michelle Martin is the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington. She primarily teaches students who will be youth services librarians who work with children...Read more
A further 15 cities have joined a national peer network of 32 other U.S. cities committed to increasing access to nature for all children, irrespective of their ability, race or family income.Read more
Alarms are going off nationwide about absenteeism. Many more students than usual missed big chunks of school during the pandemic, with some school districts seeing their chronic absenteeism rates double.Read more
As fall temperatures cool across the U.S., many schools will struggle to ventilate classrooms while also keeping students and teachers comfortable and healthy.Read more
With students off Zoom and back in classrooms, many schools have stopped helping students in the USA get online at home, new federal data shows.Read more
Mobile phones, computers, social media and the internet are part of the daily lives of children and young people, including at school. Concerns over the risks of too much screen time or online activity for...Read more
‘Learning poverty’ has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 per cent of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text, according to a new reportRead more
Not content with just enjoying the work of others, two youngsters in the Belgian city of Leuven have been the creative force behind a new children’s museum. Read more
Nearly three quarters of young people aged 15 to 24 in 92 countries with available data are ‘off-track’ to acquire the skills needed for employment.Read more
The Scottish Government says funding will be provided to deliver UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools programme to 2,400 primary and secondary state schools across Scotland.Read more
Governments must do more to help child refugees from Ukraine who have been welcomed into European cities to get back into school as soon as possible, says a leading children’s charity.Read more
A defining feature of South Africa is the level of inequality in almost all spheres of society. Nowhere is this more observable than in the schooling sector.Read more
