The national survey entitled Il lavoro regolare minorile tra formazione e sicurezza [Regular child labour between training and safety], carried out by the Childhood and Adolescence Supervisory Authority as part of the Fase...

In our country, four out of ten children who take part in sport are victims of violence in the sporting context.

Children and young people suffer psychological violence (30%), physical violence (19%), neglect (15%) and sexual...

Save the Children's new survey It's not a game is dedicated to child labour in Italy. The research shines the spotlight on a global phenomenon that also affects our country, in a widespread way but still largely undetected and unseen,...

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...

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-...

Due to the war in Ukraine and rising inflation, the number of children living in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia has increased by 19% since 2021 (an increase of 4 million).

According to the new UNICEF study, The...

Restorative justice empowers those involved in a crime or conflict to actively participate in the resolution of the resulting issues. Among its various tools, the most widely used is criminal mediation, a confidential pathway that,...

The publication Increasing achievement and motivation in mathematics and science learning in schools, a study by the Eurydice Network, is now online on the website of the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and...

On the website of the Guarantor Authority for Childhood and Adolescence (Agia), the study and proposal document "Droping out in Italy: a multifactorial analysis" is online. This publication reports the results of a survey on the...

Child abuse remains a particularly serious problem in our society, with very serious consequences on the health of the children who suffer it and, in more general terms, on the whole community. The fifth edition of the Regional Index...

During the pandemic, there was an increase in the number of neuropsychological disorders among children and young people. This was a real "mental health emergency", and could be measured by the increase in requests for help in this area...

The initial data from the survey "Children and young people: behaviour, attitudes, and future projects", carried out in 2021 by the National Institute of Statistics with the support of the Ministry of Education, are available...

The sample survey on the placement of children and young people in family foster care and in residential facilities for minors, promoted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy during 2017, seeks to focus on the quantitative...

Notebook 64 of the National Centre reports the results of a sample survey on the well-being of pre-adolescents and adolescents promoted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies with the collaboration of the...

Notebook 58 of the National Centre reports the results of a survey on the paths, times and outcomes of the national adoption process. The picture taken by the research concerns a part, albeit substantial, of the children adopted in our...

What thoughts and perceptions do children and young people have about their rights and in particular about their right to have an active role in the different areas of their daily lives? With the aim of developing reflection and...

The Extraordinary Plan for developing socio-educational services for young children is an initiative to create a regional system that increases the number of existing services and renews the collaboration between the institutions of the...

In 2004, the National Centre launched activities to promote social policies aimed at supporting the family, which provide – as set out in Law 149/2001 – for the implementation of forms of assistance to ensure that the minor stays with...

The issue of child prostitution in our country has several grey areas, mainly due to the fact that the numbers seem to be growing but are in fact ‘denied’ and under-reported. In order to raise awareness of this reality, in terms of the...

The study Percorsi di vita: dall’infanzia all’età adulta (Life paths: from childhood to adult age) was carried out in accordance with the 2003-2004 National Action Plan for the protection of the rights and development of...

The research published in Quaderno 38 and coordinated by Marina D'Amato investigates the relationship between children and the media and the influence which the latter have on the upbringing and education of children.

It is...