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8 April 2026

Paper: Preventing Family Separation and Institutionalisation of Children

Recommendations for the 2028-2034 MFF. This joint position paper sets out how EU funds can be designed to deliver better outcomes, stronger accountability, and long-term social and economic value, in…
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25 March 2026

Delivering on the European Child Guarantee: Implementation, practice and priorities

Taken from "Unequal Childhoods: Rights on paper should be rights in practice" Eurochild 2025 flagship report on children in need across Europe. Launched in 2021, the European Child Guarantee (ECG) aims to…
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17 March 2026

Every Child’s Right to Safe, Secure, and Adequate Housing

Taken from "Unequal Childhoods: Rights on paper should be rights in practice" Eurochild 2025 flagship report on children in need across Europe. Across Europe, access to safe, secure, and adequate housing has…
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26 February 2026

Children’s Mental Health in Europe: Urgent Gaps and Policy Recommendations

Taken from "Unequal Childhoods: Rights on paper should be rights in practice" Eurochild 2025 flagship report on children in need across Europe. Children’s mental health services in Europe are under intense pressure.…
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18 February 2026

Eurochild's position on age restrictions on social media

A call to rethink the business model of social media to address risks for children. The debate on age restrictions on social media should be used to push for substantive…
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10 February 2026

Children’s rights in the digital environment

Taken from "Unequal Childhoods: Rights on paper should be rights in practice" Eurochild 2025 flagship report on children in need across Europe. This sub-report synthesises evidence on children’s rights in the digital…
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News

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6 November 2015

“Child participation is a way of thinking and in fact, not costly”, Norah Gibbons

Norah Gibbons, (Candidate) Honorary member of Eurochild and Chair of Ireland's Child and Family Agency, speaks of her work and the role the EU and children's rights organisations can play…

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18 April 2018

Eurochild recommits itself to catalysing EU influence to improve lives of children

The Strategic Plan of Eurochild for 2019-2021 commits to help bring a children’s rights perspective into policies and legislation in EU member states, accession countries and neighbourhood region, by leveraging…

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25 April 2018

5 things you need to know about the annual gathering of Eurochild members

Discover all the action from the annual gathering of Eurochild members on 18-19 April 2018. 1. 171 Members in 34 countries Eurochild General Assembly voted to invite 18 new members…

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26 April 2018

How to equip migrant and refugee children to determine the course of their lives?

Eurochild and its member SOS Children’s Villages co-delivered a workshop at Lost in Migration conference, introducing promising practices published late last year. On 11-12 April, Missing Children Europe, the Maltese…

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26 April 2018

Spotlight on the Eurochild Children’s Council: April Update

Sharon, 13 years from Malta shares updates from this month’s work of the Eurochild Children’s Council – a voluntary group of young people under 18 working to promote children’s rights…

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4 May 2018

Child reporters meet in Amsterdam

Children's International Press Centre Foundation (CIPC foundation) which recently became a member of Eurochild, held on 26 April 2018 its first International Child Press Meeting in Amsterdam. The event gathered…


Events

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1 October 2026

Daphne-CHILD High-level Conference

1 October 2026, Brussels. Save the date for the Daphne-child high-level event, part of a 3-year sub-granting and capacity-building programme implemented by Eurochild and Terre des Hommes to support grassroots…

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16 - 17 June 2026

Eurochild Conference 2026

#EurochildConf on Child Protection Systems 16-17 June 2026, Aliathon-Resort, Paphos, Cyprus. The Conference is co-organised by Eurochild and its member, the Pancyprian Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Welfare of…

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22 April - 20 May, 2026

Webinar series: The GUIDE Guardianship Talks

Strengthening protection systems for unaccompanied children in Europe. Join us on a five-week series as we explore the realities of guardianship across the European Union, understand the challenges and think…

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31 March 2026

Addressing violence against children through school-based interventions

31 March, 2:00 PM CET - 3:30 pm CET; online. How are school communities working to prevent violence against children? The next Daphne-CHILD capacity building webinar organised by Eurochild and Terre des…

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20 November 2025

World Children’s Day 2025

20 November 2025; 11:00 – 12:30 CET; European Parliament (Room SPINELLI 5G1); Brussels. Hosted by MEP Hristo Petrov and MEP Evin Incir Eurochild will celebrate World Children’s Day with a…

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28 October 2025

Eurochild Academic Cafe

28 October, 15:30–16:30 CET, Online. Save the date for this informal gathering is for Eurochild members who are academics, researchers, or consultants, and aims to strengthen the link between research,…


Activities

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EU Alliance for Investing in Children

Eurochild is co-chair of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children and collaborates with over 20 European networks sharing a commitment to end child poverty and to promote child well-being across Europe. At a time when over a quarter of…
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Children's Rights Action Group (CRAG)

Eurochild collaborates closely with other children’s rights organisations active at EU level through the Children's Rights Action Group (CRAG). For the 2014 European Parliament elections, the CRAG co-authored and launched the Child Rights Manifesto to create a Child Righs Intergroup…
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Ending institutional care and reforming child protection

The Martin James Foundation is supporting Eurochild’s efforts to end institutional care and reform child welfare and protection systems across Europe. We advocate to ensure EU funds prioritise deinstitutionalisation reforms. Together with members we leverage EU policies and funds to…
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Protecting children’s rights in the digital environment

While digital environments provide valuable educational and social opportunities that support children’s development, they also bring significant risks, including cyberbullying, abuse and exploitation, and negative impacts on mental health. Eurochild is committed to protecting children’s rights both online and offline…
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The European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care

Eurochild is a member of the European Expert Group on the transition from institutional to community-based support (EEG), a coalition advocating to replace institutionalisation with family- and community-based support. The Expert Group was convened in February 2009 by the then…
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Daphne-CHILD: Shaping tomorrow’s child protection services with children

Eurochild and Terre des Hommes (TdH) are implementing a 3-year sub-granting and capacity building programme to support grassroot civil society organisations (CSOs) address violence against children. The programme will be active in 9 countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania,…
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Guide

The GUIDE (Supporting Guardians of Unaccompanied Children) project aims to support professionals and guardians responsible for unaccompanied and separated children arriving in the EU from various countries and contexts. The project will also support children from Ukraine and those who…
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Fighting Anti-Rights Movements

Anti-Rights Movements are attacks on democracy, shrinking civil society space and a backlash against universal human rights that undermine the freedom, safety and action of those defending human rights.  These movements typically campaign against the rights of excluded groups –…
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Evidence to Protect: Communicating child helpline data for impact

Turning data into evidence that strengthens children’s protection online. While the online environment offers valuable opportunities, it also exposes children to increasingly serious risks, including sexual abuse, exploitation, and grooming. With our work, we aim to transform data from our…
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Change for Children in Bulgaria

Leveraging EU policies and funding to drive tangible change. Bulgaria has the highest rate of child poverty and social exclusion in the EU, affecting 35.1% of children in 2024. Poverty, discrimination and weak family support services continue to drive avoidable…

Completed Activities

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DataCare

The DataCare Project was launched by Eurochild with support from UNICEF in March 2020. The project aims to carry out a comprehensive mapping of child protection data systems across the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) and the…
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First Years, First Priority

Eurochild and the International Step by Step Association co-lead a Europe-wide campaign to leverage EU policy and funds and drive public investment in early childhood development. The European Public Health Alliance and Roma Education Fund are associate partners. Organisations in…
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Child Rights Manifesto / Vote for Children

#VoteforChildren is a coalition campaign seeking for children’s issues to top the agenda for the 2024 European elections. Every 5 years the leadership in the EU institutions changes. EU citizens have the opportunity to vote for Members of the European Parliament.  New…
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CarePath

The CarePath project involves partners from Greece, Hungary and Italy.  It aims to ensure that children ageing out of care have access to high quality trauma-informed aftercare support.  It contributes to Eurochild’s goal of improving child protection systems in Europe.…
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Childonomics

Childonomics aims to combine economic discipline with children’s rights.  It provides a knowledge framework through which Eurochild understands investing in children. The initial project (2014-2018) developed a conceptual framework and methodology designed to measure the long-term social and economic return…
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Opening Doors, Pan-European De-Institutionalisation Campaign

Strengthening Families. Ending Institutional CareA safe and loving family environment is the best place for a child to thrive. The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign aimed to strengthen families and end institutional care. The campaign coordinated by Eurochild, was…
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ICAM - Improving the inclusion in school of Children Affected by Migration

Eurochild is partnering in an innovative EU-funded initiative to improve the inclusion in schools and ensure the rights to quality education for all Children who have been Affected by Migration (CAM). CAM are children who, for whatever reason, have suffered from…
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Reaching In: strengthening marginalised children’s participation in decision-making

Reaching-In is a European collaboration project between children and adults, aiming at increasing the impact that marginalised children have on public decision-making at local, national level and European levels (decisions made by governments and decisions about services like health, education…
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Building children's futures - Using children's rights to recover from the global pandemic

Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on children and young people across Europe. Pandemic restrictions led to school closures, the curtailment of services and parental unemployment. Consequently, many children experienced increased exposure to abuse, neglect, poverty, hunger, social exclusion and…
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DAY – Democratic Activation of Youth

The aim of the DAY Project – Democratic Activation of Youth coordinated by Eurochild member Albero della Vita is to create and institutionalise mechanisms of child participation in democratic life at the local level in Italy. The DAY project is…
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Leveraging EU influence to deliver change for families in adversity in Bulgaria

The project aims to strengthen the prevention of child-family separation in adversity in Bulgaria by leveraging and meaningfully engaging civil society. Eurochild will support “360 degrees” tailored advocacy agenda for Bulgaria using all strings and influences of the EU for…
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Child Citizens Project –Creating meaningful local child participation in Hungary

The aim of the Child Citizens project is to create and implement effective and innovative child participatory practices in Józsefváros, the 8th district of Budapest. The Child Citizens Project is coordinated by the municipality of Józsefváros, Budapest’s 8th district, and…