Government: Most children in the UK are ‘happy’
More than four in five young people aged between 10 and 24 in the United Kingdom say they are happy with their lives, according to research marking World Mental Health Day (October 10). In the Government’s...Read more
A bright new future for Child in the City Foundation
The non-profit Child in the City Foundation, which works for the well-being of children globally, is looking to the future with a streamlined new structure. Since 2002 this Netherlands-based foundation has been successfully organising bi-annual conferences...Read more
Food habits of kids in Accra show how unhealthy diets take root
What we eat is changing on a global scale. Changes in the types of food that are available and affordable, where we buy food and how we prepare it carry significant consequences for nutrition and...Read more
Greta & Divina honoured by Dutch children’s organisation
A Dutch children’s rights organisation has awarded its annual prize to 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and a 14-year-old peace campaigner from Cameroon. KidsRights has given its International Children’s Peace Prize to Thunberg and peace activist...Read more
Scotland makes smacking children a crime
Scotland has become the first country in the UK to make it a criminal offence for parents to smack their children. Parents and carers are currently allowed to use ‘reasonable’, physical force to discipline children, but...Read more
Amnesty International – ‘Let children strike over climate change’
The head of Amnesty International has made an extraordinary, personal appeal to thousands of schools to let pupils take part in planned global climate strikes. Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of the global human rights movement, believes...Read more
How a child’s environment can affect their personality
Certain personality traits found in children come from living in a city or rural environment, and not ‘who’ they are, say psychologists at a leading university. A study of children from four countries revealed that qualities...Read more
Eurochild launches legal partnership to support children’s rights
Children’s advocacy network Eurochild has announced a strategic partnership with a major global law firm to support the rights of children in Europe. The link-up with Dentons will provide Eurochild and its Europe-wide members with...Read more
Parents in Wales will need ‘support’ if smacking ban becomes law
Parents will need much more support if a new law banning the smacking of children in Wales is successfully introduced. That’s the view of a group of Welsh Assembly members (AMs), who also say that a...Read more
Huge funding drop in children’s early help services, says UK charity
Budgets for ‘early intervention’ UK children’s services, designed to help prevent abuse and neglect spiralling out of control, have fallen over a quarter since 2013, says Action for Children. The charity says that ‘crippling cuts’ in...Read more
Community schools in Egypt: lessons on what works, and what doesn’t
The ‘community school’ model in Egypt is no longer confined to just rural areas and can increasingly can be found in larger population areas. Despite this expansion though, all such schools need to work harder...Read more
Urban kibbutzim plant seeds for improving city life
The Kibbutz, Israel’s long-established and unique social community, is changing. Stemming originally from the idea of an agriculture-based settlement, today’s kibbutz is just as likely to be city-based. But the family spirit – with children...Read more
‘Reclaim city streets for children’, keynote speaker Ankita Chachra tells CitC 2018
“We have the space – we just need to reclaim it.” The words of urban designer Ankita Chachra who used the opening keynote speech at Child in the City 2018 to shine a light on...Read more
Vienna welcomes 9th Child in the City World Conference
Hundreds of children’s rights experts from across the globe have this week been in Vienna for the 9th Child in the City World Conference This bi-annual event was held over three days, bringing together a...Read more