Empathy tools for urban leaders and designers
Urban planners are being encouraged to utilise a set of ’empathy tools’ aimed at helping them design child-friendly environments. It’s one of the latest initiatives developed by the Urban95 arm of the Bernard van Leer Foundation...Read more
‘I need nature, I need space’: high-rise families rely on child-friendly neighbourhoods
Children’s living environments in Australian capital cities have changed significantly in the past ten years. This is particularly the case for the growing numbers of families raising children in private, inner-city, high-rise housing. Our study...Read more
Bradford hoping to be UNICEF’s newest Child Friendly City
The city of Bradford is confident of becoming the latest in the UK to gain official UNICEF Child Friendly City and Community status for the region. Gaining this coveted global status would go a long towards...Read more
UNICEF expands child-friendly cities’ handbook
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Child-Friendly Cities and Communities handbook has now been translated into French, Spanish and Chinese. Containing guidance on how to establish a child-friendly cities initiative (CFCI) to help cities do better...Read more
Child Poverty in Western Cities: learning from global approaches
Learning from global experiences will be central to the debate around child poverty when Leeds hosts next week’s Child Poverty in Western Cities seminar. Practitioners, advocates, academics and policymakers concerned with helping create child-friendly cities across...Read more
Outlining a vision of a child-friendly New Orleans
Safety, nature and health are at the forefront of the city of New Orleans’ bold new vision for making itself truly child-friendly. For several months now the city’s Mayor’s Office of Youth and Families (OYF) has...Read more
Child Poverty in Western Cities preview – Q&A with Andy Lloyd, Leeds Children’s Services
Child poverty in western cities is a problem often masked by cities’ wealthier areas and conurbations. One such example is Leeds in northern England, which next month hosts the Child Poverty in Western Cities international...Read more
The rise of Germany’s ‘play streets’
Can play streets help address the problem of dwindling playgrounds in German cities? That’s the hope of planners who want to make the urban landscape truly child-friendly People are moving to the cities but this has...Read more
Book your place now for Child Poverty in Western Cities
Registration is now open for the Child Poverty in Western Cities seminar in Leeds in November. This is an opportunity for you to join fellow children’s rights experts and policymakers for this important event looking at...Read more
Da Nang promotes children rights through urbanisation
Officials in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang say they face serious challenges around urbanisation – with children’s rights at the heart of the struggle. ‘Relentless efforts’ in recent years has seen the city take...Read more
Detroit hopes new gifted children initiative avoids equity issues
Michelle Taylor’s first-grader had only been at Chrysler Elementary School for a few months, but already she was bored. “They didn’t have the tools to support my daughter,” Taylor said. Unsure where else to turn, she...Read more