Vantaa has been selected by Finland’s UNICEF committee to participate in its Child Friendly Cities Model, and will be supported to make the city’s infrastructure designed with children as a priority.Read more
A low-cost school that is easy to build and dismantle can meet the educational needs of migrants and those living in informal settlements across India.
Swati Janu, the designer of ModSkool is also urging cities to...Read more
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Argentina is working with child autism non-profit partner PANAACEA to support caregivers of children with developmental delays and disabilities in the capital Buenos Aires, through the Caregiver Skills Training...Read more
A local council in The Netherlands has come up with a game through which children can learn about cybercrime and then pass on their knowledge to parents and carers.Read more
Jodi Rosenbaum works at an elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, where she helps to patch America’s social safety net. She organizes food drives, helps families access benefits, and distributes coats in the winter. It’s a job...Read more
Children’s road safety lessons and cycling tests were significantly affected by the initial COVID lockdowns and school closures, according to a new multi-agency report. Read more
Throughout the pandemic, decisions made by adults have had a significant impact on all aspects of young people’s lives, yet some teenagers feel their voice and experiences during the pandemic have not been heard. The...Read more
Both compulsory and non-compulsory schools in Switzerland should not be immediately closed because of the continued COVID pandemic, say the Government’s scientific advisors and education experts.Read more
The lives of millions of parents and children were turned upside down when COVID-19 forced school lockdowns in April 2020. With a new national lockdown having begun in England on January 4 2021, many parents...Read more
A truly collaborative process is the only way to describe the Nueva Escuela project in Ecuador, which has seen school pupils and their community play a central role in the design of a sustainable school....Read more
Chicago Connected — the city’s ambitious initiative to help low-income students get online — has provided tens of thousands of families with free internet since it launched last summer and has become a national model...Read more
A fair start for every child in Europe – that’s the aim of a new health & education partnership committed to prioritising early years development within public policy-making processes.Read more
In mid-March, some 200,000 Philadelphia students were sent home from their public schools due to the coronavirus, with hopes they would return two weeks later. That didn’t happen, and the buildings have been shuttered ever...Read more
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern in the UK. Surveys conducted in 2017 and 2018 showed that 28 per cent of children aged from two to 15 in England were overweight or obese.Read more
Schools play a critical role for children – not only in providing education, social and emotional development, but also in offering critical support – especially for the most vulnerable of students.Read more
|Comment|author: Pursuit at University of Melbourne
About one in 10 New York City public school students is experiencing homelessness, a rate that has remained stubbornly similar for several years. Read more
