Children
Our work on children and child well-being helps countries design policies that ensure every child can have the best possible start in life. We monitor progress on child well-being outcomes and provide policy assistance and advice to make sure children have the opportunties they need for a bright future.
Focus
Beyond Academic Learning: First results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills
This survey is one of the first international efforts to collect data from students, parents and teachers on the social and emotional skills of students at ages 10 and 15. This report presents the first results from this survey, describing students' social and emotional skills and how they relate to individual, family, and school characteristics. It also examines broader policy and socio-economic contexts related to these skills, and sheds light on ways to help education leaders and policy makers monitor and foster students’ social and emotional skills.
What’s new?
- Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies (Jul 2021)
- Starting Strong VI: Supporting Meaningful Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care (Jun 2021)
- Sharing, caring, daring: Social-emotional development at age five (Jun 2021)
- 21st-Century Readers: Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World (May 2021)
- Adapting Curriculum to Bridge Equity Gaps: Towards an Inclusive Curriculum (May 2021)
- The State of School Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic (Apr 2021)
Data
Explore the OECD Child Well-being Data Portal
Our Child Well-being Data Portal brings together data on child well-being and the settings in which children grow up.
Opinion
- Can support for Indigenous children’s early development play a part in addressing legacies of colonialism? (July 2021)
- Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies (Français) (July 2021)
- Is curiosity a key to better early learning? (June 2021)
- Child safety in the digital age: How education systems can help (January 2021)
- Educating healthy and happy children in the digital age (October 2020)
- Putting children at the centre of Africa’s prevention and response strategies to COVID-19 (April 2020)
- 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)
- Plugged-in parents are inadvertently creating data footprints for their children (November 2019)
- Keeping children happy, healthy and safe in the digital age (October 2019)
- Why schools should pay more attention to students’ mental health and well-being (March 2018)
- Massive data gaps leave refugee, migrant and displaced children in danger and without access to basic services (February 2018)
- Is physical health linked to better learning? (February 2018)
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More from the child well-being community
- 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)
Contacts
For more information on our work on child well-being, please contact wellbeing@oecd.org.
Journalists should contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org