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25 June 2025

Breaking the silence on racial discrimination in childhood

Eurochild’s contribution to the 2026-2030 EU anti-racism strategy. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) highlights that racism thrives “where there is ignorance, unfounded fears of…
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25 June 2025

The European Child Guarantee and Roma children: Between commitment and practice

A Review of Biennial Report. This joint report by Eurochild and the EURoma Network assesses the consideration of Roma children in the implementation of the European Child Guarantee in 15…
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19 June 2025

Eradicating child poverty in Europe

Eurochild’s vision for the upcoming EU Anti-Poverty Strategy. Despite the commitments made under the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the EU is not on track to meet its…
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18 June 2025

Hungary's 2024 Biennial report on the implementation of the Child Guarantee – an overview

Three years after the adoption of the European Child Guarantee, EU Member States are releasing the first report on its implementation. The reports offer an overview of the context, target…
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17 June 2025

Housing challenges faced by children in Europe

Eurochild’s contribution to the European Commission’s call for evidence on the European Affordable Housing Plan Breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and social exclusion lies at the core of Eurochild’s…
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4 June 2025

How children feel

Children’s perceptions of mental health in four EU Member States Eurochild published its first report on Children's Mental Health, which provides an overview of the situation on the ground in Bulgaria,…
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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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17 June 2025

Preventing institutionalisation through EU Funding – the role of the new Multiannual Financial Framework

17 June 14:00-16:00 CET; Online. On behalf of the European Expert Group on the transition from institutional to community-based living (EEG), Eurochild invites you to our annual study session addressing…

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3 June 2025

Strengthening Child-centred Child Protection Systems Together With Civil Society And Children

3 June 2025; Madrid & Hybrid Eurochild is organising a parallel workshop during the 5th World Congress on Justice With Children where we will present the Daphne project and our…

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15 April 2025

Embedding a child participation culture at local level: Final conference for the Child Citizens project

On 15 April, Eurochild, together with our member CSAGYI – the Child Family Youth Association, and local partners are hosting the closing conference of the Child Citizens Project, the Józsefváros…

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5 - 7 March 2025

Advancing Impact of the European Child Guarantee in Bulgaria

Peer-to-Peer Workshop, 5-7 March 2025, Sofia, BG. This event co-organised by Eurochild and the National Network for Children will provide a platform for policymakers, civil society organisations, and individuals with…

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11 December 2024

Introducing the EU Guidance on Independent Living: Stakeholders' Initial Reactions

11 December 2024; 14h00 – 15h30 CET; Online. This webinar by Eurpchild, EASPD, EDF, Inclusion Europe, ENIL, and COFACE will be the chance to learn more about the new European…

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14 November 2024

EEG - Preventing institutionalisation of children: strengthening families and building community-based alternative care

Online; 14 November 2024, 09:30 – 12:30 Although the EU encourages its Member States to focus on providing community-based alternative care, early intervention, preventative measures and family strengthening, more should…


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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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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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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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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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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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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Protecting children’s rights in the digital environment

Eurochild advocates for children’s rights and well-being to be at the heart of policymaking. We believe children should be able to enjoy online the same rights they already hold offline. In this area, Eurochild has three main goals: influence EU…
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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…
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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 –…