The 2000-2001 National Action Plan contains the basic strategic lines that the Government intends to pursue to develop an adequate policy for childhood and adolescence and concrete commitments, which are added to the...

The Government's Action Plan for Children and Adolescents 1997-1998 was intended to initiate new institutional developments that, in strengthening attention to the issues of childhood and adolescence, would make it produce...

An informative pathway in family fostering

This information and promotional brochure on family foster care has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Social...

This booklet introduces the national project "A path in foster care," resulting from the collaboration between the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies and the National Coordination of Foster Care Services (...

Information brochure of the national project for the promotion and support of foster care "A path in foster care", resulting from the collaboration between the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies and 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 regional centres and observatories for children and adolescents were set up to meet the need for a comprehensive overview of the situation involving children and adolescents in the implementation of Law 451/1997.

In this...

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...

How can we inform and protect very young people from the risks of drinking too much alcohol? In order to find as comprehensive an answer as possible, in 2007 the National Centre carried out research on alcohol use and abuse among young...

Nurseries and educational services for children is the subject of the thematic path that opens Rassegna bibliografica 1/2008, the first issue of the new series. The fresh look, requested by the technical-scientific...

The Italian Thesaurus on Childhood and Adolescence (Th.I.A.)  includes in a verified vocabulary all the terms used in the subject-matter of every type of document acquired by the Centre (bibliographic, legal, statistical and...

The book's introduction is by Patrizia De Mennato, Full Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Florence. ‘Understanding the profession of educator’, writes De Mennato, ‘means penetrating the...

Europa has grown. The traditional 15 Member States were joined in 2004 by 10 countries of the Eastern Bloc and on 1 January 2007 by Bulgaria and Romania. But how do families and, above all, children and adolescents live in the EU...

After years of steady decline, the birth rate is rising again in Italy. It is increasing especially in the north and a little less in the center of the country. The demographic decline seems to have temporarily stopped and according to...

The theme of disability is addressed in this reading from a pedagogical perspective. The authors, Marisa Pavone and Riziero Zucchi, retrace the historical evolution of disability, starting from educability as a model of approach to the...

The reading path of this issue of Rassegna bibliografica is dedicated to the theme of self-help groups, tracing their origins, definitions and characteristics, typologies, and ending with a special look at the Italian situation...

The Handbook is a tool for use by labour inspectors to support their vital role in identifying and eliminating high-risk child labour situations. The text provides an overview of their task and shows how to address the problem, not only...

The first issue of the journal for 2007 presents a thematic reading on children's rights. If it is true that the level of civilisation of a society can be judged on the basis of the attention and care given to its less privileged...

The survey, which involved approximately 24,000 families, 29.2% of which with under-age children, comes a few years after the previous statistical study, which had focused for the first time on aspects concerning in particular minors....

The two-year report on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy was drawn up following the indications given by the National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence in January 2004. Therefore, attention was paid not only to...

This special monographic issue of the magazine has been designed for all those who work with families and who have to deal on a daily basis with a multi-faceted and constantly evolving reality, with the aim of providing a useful tool...

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 peculiarity of this report on the state of implementation of Law no. 149/2001 is that it was drawn up thanks to the contribution of multiple institutions: the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the Ministry of Justice, the...

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...

Maura Gelati, Full Professor of Special Education and Pedagogy at the University of Milan-Bicocca, outlines the professional profile of the support teacher from a historical retrospective.

At the beginning of the last decade,...

The main objective of the research is strictly exploratory, i.e. to investigate the perception of learning disorders by all those who come into contact with children aged 6-14 years, during both their school education and their personal...

Within the varied panorama of current immigration, unaccompanied foreign minors constitute a ‘new’ category of migrants both in Europe and in other parts of the world. The reading of this issue, written by Clara Silva, Professor of...

The volume gives an overview, as of 31 December 2005, of national and regional data and legislation concerning early childhood services in Italy.  

The reading of this issue, written by Pasquale Andria, President of the Potenza Juvenile Court, begins by identifying the difficulties and criticalities of juvenile justice, and then...

The National Conference on Childhood and Adolescence was held on 21 and 22 November 2005 in Florence, organised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the National Centre for Documentation and Analysis on Childhood and...