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UNICEF UK report celebrates Child-Friendly Cities programme
Cities across the United Kingdom are truly embracing UNICEF’s drive to create a global network of child-friendly municipalities, says the charity.Read more![unhealthykids](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/unhealthykids.avif)
‘A national embarrassment’ – obesity & sickness levels among children in England
Poverty, poor diets and a lack of access to healthy food are resulting in children in England getting shorter, more obese and sicker, health experts have warned.Read more![chidren-playing-around-the-world-50](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/chidren-playing-around-the-world-50-128x128.jpg)
Present your work at Child in the City Seminar 2024: ‘Keep on Moving’
The great port city of Rotterdam will host this year’s Child in the City Seminar – and we’d love for you to share your work. Our theme this year is ‘Keep on Moving, and so if...Read more![Bathymetry_image_of_the_Hawaiian_archipelago](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Bathymetry_image_of_the_Hawaiian_archipelago-128x128.png)
Hawaii youth activists win huge climate change court case
A group of Hawaii teenagers who sued the state government over the threat of climate change are celebrating a settlement which emphasises a plan to decarbonize the island’s transportation system in the next 20 years. The...Read more![Screenshot 2020-07-02 at 08.29.27](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screenshot-2020-07-02-at-08.29.27-128x128.png)
UK Play Commission formed to help improve youngsters’ access to play
A new ‘play’ commission will investigate the state of children’s play in the UK and give the new incoming government ideas for improving access and facilities.Read more![PleikuBloomberg](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PleikuBloomberg-128x128.png)
Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety – the winners
‘Groundbreaking’ work to manage speeds around schools in the Vietnamese city of Pleiku, has won it recognition in a major global road safety awards scheme.Read more![Playing,Little,Boy,On,The,River,Coast,In,Front,Of](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/airpollutioneurope-128x128.jpeg)
Air pollution is a global killer – and it’s the under fives who are most at risk
The evidence is absolutely damning: children’s health is being dramatically affected by air-based pollutants that having a devastating impact on the health of the human race – and becoming the second leading global risk factor...Read more![53788806383_c7804ef3c0_c](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/53788806383_c7804ef3c0_c-128x128.jpg)
European Child Guarantee – what has it delivered so far?
Children’s rights regulators from across the EU have met in Brussels to mark the third anniversary of the European Child Guarantee and highlight the work being done in all their respective countries.Read more![shutterstockchildpovertycanada](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/shutterstockchildpovertycanada-128x128.png)
Child poverty will be ‘critical’ election issue in UK General Election
With voters in the United Kingdom getting ready to go to the polls in just over two weeks’ time, child poverty campaigners are highlighting the importance of this most critical issue in the battle for...Read more![caremissions](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/caremissions-128x128.jpg)
‘Ground breaking’ study says low emission zones are a major benefit for child health
The long-term benefits for children’s health resulting from urban low emission zones are more apparent than ever, according to a new study.Read more![childfriendlycardiff2](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/childfriendlycardiff2-128x128.jpg)
How child-friendly Cardiff is ‘repurposing’ urban spaces
Global children’s charity UNICEF has been highlighting some of the innovations which brought it the title of the UK’s first Child Friendly City.Read more![mexico traffic CC Flickr: megananne](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/4740904441_e887253421_b-128x128.jpg)