27 January is a Day of Remembrance. It is a very important date, which sees all the countries of the world committed to promoting initiatives to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and encourage reflection and remembrance. The anniversary was established in Italy with the law 211/2000, to ensure the commemoration of the extermination...

Children from the poorest families benefit less from national public funding for education. According to the recent UNICEF report Transforming Education with Equitable Financing, on average the poorest 20% of students benefit from only 16% of public funding for education, compared to the richest, who benefit from 28%. In low-...

24 January is the International Day of Education established by the United Nations. It is an important opportunity to reflect on the central importance of education as a right for all and a public good, which 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...

Two new reports on child mortality worldwide, prepared by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Child Mortality Assessment: Levels &Trends in Child Mortality, are online on the Unicef website. Report 2022 and Never Forgotten. The situation of stillbirth around the globe. 5 million children died before their fifth...

On 16, 17 and 18 December last year, the adolescents and young people of the Youth Advisory Board (Yab) met in Milan for the third time to discuss the implementation of the Child Guarantee, an initiative by the European Commission aimed at promoting equal opportunities and guaranteeing access to essential services for children at...

This is a guide to help officials of local and national institutions, school headteachers, teachers and other professionals to establish or strengthen Children's and Youth Councils, bodies composed of under-18s appointed to become their peers' representatives and which are intended to encourage the participation of young people, often at the community level...

The Save the Children programme called Ad Ali spiegate (Spreading their Wings) proposes an integrated approach to combat gender-based violence, domestic violence and witnessed violence, delivered in collaboration with regional partners, such as anti-violence centres and shelters. Among other actions, the programme includes the provision of grants for...

As of 31 December 2020, 13,542 early childhood services were in operation in the country, almost 300 fewer than the previous year (-2.1%). The total number of places is 350,670, 49% of which are in public facilities, with a deficit of about 10,600 places (-2.9%). The ISTAT report Supply of nurseries and supplementary early childhood services. The 2020/...

Today, one in two children and more than one in three women live in countries characterised by forms of exclusion. The causes of this include poverty, conflict, climate change, forced migration and, for younger children, increased online risks. The WeWorld Index 2022, a study conducted by the non-profit organisation WeWorld in collaboration with ChildFund...

As of 31 December 2021, the number of unaccompanied foreign children and adolescents increased by 73%, while the number of voluntary guardians registered in the Juvenile Court lists remained substantially stable (-0.35% compared to the same period in 2020). This is what emerges from the Fourth Monitoring Report on the voluntary...

The publication The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage in European OECD countries, based on survey data from 27 countries across Europe, is now available online on the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) website. "Growing up in conditions of socio-economic disadvantage – reads the...

Conferences with institutional representatives and experts, as well as cultural, recreational and sports events open to families and all citizens. Once again this year, the Family Festival, which opened in Trento on 28 November, offers a rich programme of study days and other initiatives that will continue at various venues in the provincial capital until 3...