The closure of schools due to the pandemic had a huge impact on children's learning, but also on their mental health and other aspects of their lives. The recent report The state of the global education crisis - produced by Unesco, Unicef and the World Bank and released on 24 January on the International Education Day - shows that ...

Cyberbullying, if you talk about it you'll get help, is the claim of the third edition of the communication campaign launched on 30 January and carried out by the Department for Family Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers with the technical support of the Istituto degli Innocenti. The aim is to raise awareness among children,...

On 21 January, the Council of Ministers approved the final version of the Fifth National Plan of Action and Interventions for the Protection of the Rights and Development of Children and Adolescents, adopted by the National Observatory for Children and Adolescents on 21 May 2021. The document obtained the positive opinions of the Supervisory Authority for...

Education - which many children are often denied, especially in the poorest countries - is fundamental, not only for the growth of individuals, but also for the development of society as a whole, because it is the most effective tool for combating inequality, poverty, marginalisation and exploitation. International Education Day on 24 January,...

The campaign video on the Single and Universal Benefit for Dependent Children is now online on the Department for Family Policies' website. It briefly illustrates the main points of the new measure for families in simple and clear language. The video's tagline is Your children, our future. The benefit - provided for by...

The national conference entitled Educazione Zerosei, took place on 18 January at the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence. Rights, quality and accessibility in the integrated system, organised by the historic Florentine institution with the partnership with the Regional School Office for Tuscany. The conference, also attended by Education Minister Patrizio...

Births in our country continue to decline. In fact, the recent Istat report on the birth rate and fertility of the resident population reveals that there will be 404,892 births in 2020, about 15,000 less than in 2019 (-3.6 percent). "This is a significant phenomenon," the report explains, "partly due to the 'structural' effects induced by...

The report Levels and trends in child mortality 2021 is online on Unicef's website. The world remains significantly behind in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals to end preventable deaths of infants and children under the age of five, according to estimates by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Child Mortality...

The video was made to celebrate World Children’s Day 2020, as part of the communication campaign run by the Department for Family Policy. World Children’s Day, set out by the Italian Government in Law No 451 of 1997, is held on 20 November each year and is aimed at raising awareness of the values laid out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The...

In 2019, the number of deaths between the ages of zero and five worldwide, dropped to the lowest point ever recorded in history (5.2 million, down nearly 60 percent from 12.5 million in 1990). This was reported in the document Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2020, produced by Unicef, the World Health Organization, the United Nations...

Ensuring an alternative life for minors from families rooted in organized crime contexts: this is the goal of the memorandum of understanding signed on November 5 by the Minister of Education, University and Research Lorenzo Fioramonti, the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede, the Minister for Equal Opportunities and Family Elena Bonetti. Among the...

Births in our country continue to decline: in 2018 there were 449,000 births, 9,000 less than the previous lowest recorded in 2017. This is a finding in Istat's Demographic Indicators report, which contains estimates for the year 2018. The data show that in just ten years, from 2008 to 2018, births decreased by 128 ,000. "On the...