Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, which is important for boosting cognition and mental wellbeing. Good brain health at this age is directly linked to better mental heath, cognition and educational attainment...Read more
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The Children’s Rights Alliance in Ireland has launched its Child Poverty Monitor 2023, analysing the state of play for children and young people and tracking government progress on tackling the key issues.Read more
Children and adolescents are struggling to receive mental health support and treatment for range of reasons. It is even more difficult to get help when young people come from a background of poverty.Read more
Child poverty rates in Aotearoa New Zealand are ‘a sad indictment on the country’, with no real improvement in policy that could turn things aroundRead more
When teachers at Children’s Playhouse, a pair of child care centres in South Philadelphia, noticed children sneaking school-provided snacks into their book bags to take home, it was a ‘huge red flag’, says founder and...Read more
A damning new report from the Children’s Commissioners for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales highlights violations of children’s rights that raise areas ‘of grave concern’ over issues like poverty, mental health and human rights.Read more
A new bipartisan US federal spending bill could send more money to schools serving students from low-income families and increase access to summer meals.Read more
An influential group of European children’s rights stakeholders and champions have come together to map out a new blueprint for tackling child poverty.Read more
‘No significant progress’ has been made in the standards of children’s lives and rights across the world over the last decade – that’s the damning verdict of international children’s rights organisation KidsRights.Read more
The economic fall-out from Russia’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine has thrown some four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a report by charity UNICEF.Read more
The planet’s greatest footballers will take the starring role when the FIFA World Cup starts in Qatar in less than two months’ time – but not before the capital Doha hosts the Street Child World...Read more
Rising energy prices and the post-Covid fall out are just two of the reasons why nearly 10 per cent of children in The Netherlands will be living in poverty in 2023.Read more
Over 350,000 children in war-ravaged Ukraine have now benefited from a humanitarian cash assistance programme provided by children’s charity UNICEF.Read more
At this very moment, nearly one billion children worldwide are experiencing the pains of hunger and illness due to poverty. They cannot afford the bare necessities of life, such as clean water, heat or shelter, and...Read more
Two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are deeply affected by fragility, conflict and violence, and which are some of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child.Read more