Children
OECD Child Well-Being Portal
The OECD Child Well-Being Portal is a platform for conducting policy-oriented research on children, enhancing child well-being and promoting equal opportunities among children. As policy interventions for children in OECD countries increasingly overarch traditional policy fields, demand has grown for better comparative information across a range of children's outcomes. The Portal also includes the OECD Child Well-Being Data Portal, which gathers data and information from different sources on child well-being outcomes and policies.
Focus
Securing the Recovery, Ambition and Resilience for the Well-Being of Children in the post-Covid-19 Decade
In October 2020, the OECD and the Institute of Inspiring Children’s Future at the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, hosted a webinar for OECD delegates and child well-being experts around “Securing the Recovery, Ambition and Resilience for the Well-Being of Children in the post-Covid-19 Decade”. During the webinar, the OECD presented the foundations of a Framework for achieving the well-being of children in the post-COVID-19 decade, which is designed to help develop a common understanding of child well-being policy issues. The paper also includes key messages drawn from the recent experience on Child Well-Being policies in France, New Zealand and Norway.
Also in the news
- Putting children at the heart of Europe’s recovery (Eurochild’s Breakfast webinar to mark World Children’s Day 2020, 18-20 November 2020)
- Making Prevention Work (Preventive Structures and Policies For Children, Youth and Families, Bertelmann Stiftung)
- Worlds of Influence: Understanding what shapes child well-being in rich countries (UNICEF, Report Card 16, Sept. 2020)
- Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being: Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)survey in Europe and Canada (HBSC/WHO, May 2020)
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Children (United Nations, Policy Brief, April 2019)
- International conference on Universal Child Grants (February 2019)
OECD Child Well-Being Data Portal
Key documents
- Delivering evidence based services for all vulnerable families [working paper] (July 2020)
- Combatting COVID-19's effect on children (August 2020)
- Early Learning and Child Well-being - A Study of Five-year-Olds in England, Estonia, and the United States (March 2020)
- Treating all children equally? Why policies should adapt to evolving family realities [policy brief], [working paper] (March 2020)
- Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children: Building Opportunities and Resilience (Nov. 2019)
- Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains (November 2019)
- Child labour: Causes, consequences and policies to tackle it [policy brief] [working paper] (November 2019)
- Poor children in rich countries: why we need policy action [policy brief] [figures & data] (October 2018)
- Child poverty: Trends, determinants and policies to tackle it [in the OECD] [in Canada] [in Korea] (October 2018)
- Child Well-Being and the Sustainable Development Goals [policy brief] [working paper] (October 2018)
- Children & Young People’s Mental Health in the Digital Age: Shaping the Future (October 2018)
- Engaging Young Children : Lessons from Research about Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (March2018)
- The Protection of Children Online: Recommendation of the OECD Council
See more key OECD publications and Other resources
Opinion
- Putting children at the centre of Africa’s prevention and response strategies to COVID-19 (April 2019)
- During the coronavirus crisis, children need books more than ever! (April 2020)
- Coronavirus is a devastating blow to children in poverty (March 2020)
- Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children: Building Opportunities and Resilience (November 2019)
- Massive data gaps leave refugee, migrant and displaced children in danger and without access to basic services (February 2018)
- Free children from chains: India and the world need a multi-dimensional strategy to stop human trafficking (August 2017)
- Abolish modern slavery! (June 2017)
- Smartphones are child’s play, but what about the child labour? (April 2017)
- Not all poor children can become slumdog millionaires (November 2016)
Contacts
For child outcomes & policies: social.contact@oecd.org
For education-related work: edu.contact@oecd.org
For the well-being agenda: wellbeing@oecd.org
Journalists should contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org