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
Helping our Youngest to Learn and Grow: Policies for Early Learning
This report discusses policies and practices that shape quality and equity in early childhood education and care. It examines how the work environment, including the educational background of staff, and the policies that shape teaching approaches affect the quality of the education provided to our youngest learners. The book concludes with an overview of current thinking about how young children use, and are affected by, information and communication technologies (ICT). Linking the way children interact with ICT inside of school to the way they already use it outside of school could be the key to unlocking technology’s potential for learning. Children learn at a faster rate during the first five years of their life than at any other time, developing cognitive, and social and emotional skills that are fundamental to their future achievements and well-being throughout childhood and as adults. Despite compelling evidence that high quality early childhood education and care programmes can make a crucial difference to children’s progress through school and success in adult life, large differences in access to and the quality of these programmes persist within and across countries.
OECD Child Well-Being Data Portal
Key documents
- How can we help stop child labour? (policy Brief, February 2019).
- Policy Workshop on Enhancing Child Well-being: From Ends to Means? (January 2019)
- Early Learning matters [policy brief] [working paper] (November 2018)
- 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
- Starting Strong V : Transitions from Early Childhood Education and Care to Primary Education (June 2017)
- Starting Strong 2017: Key OECD Indicators on Early Childhood Education and Care (June 2017)
- Enhancing Child Well-Being to Promote Inclusive Growth (Jun 2016)
- PISA 2015 Results (Volume I) - Excellence and Equity in Education (December 2016)
- PISA 2015 Results (Volume II) - Policies and Practices for Successful Schools (December 2016)
- PISA 2015 Results (Volume III): Students’ Well-being (April 2017)
- Walking the tightrope: Background brief on parents’ work-life balance across the stages of childhood (December 2016)
- Who uses childcare? Background on inequalities in the use of formal early childhood education and care (June 2016)
- Skills for Social Progress - The Power of Social and Emotional (March 2015)
- Doing Better for Children (2009)
Opinion
- 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)
Also in the news
- International conference on Universal Child Grants (February 2019)
- Child-sensitive Social Protection (The Global coalition to End Child Poverty, November 2017)
- America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2017 (US Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, July 2017)
- Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries (UNICEF, June 2017)
- A Child is a Child: Protecting children on the move from violence, abuse and exploitation (UNICEF, May 2017)
- A world free from child poverty: A guide to the tasks to achieve the vision (The Global coalition to End Child Poverty, April 2017)
Ongoing work
Ongoing OECD work aims at identifying policies to promote the well-being of children in the context of policy concerns about unequal opportunities and declining social mobility observed in many OECD countries.
Other resources
See here a list of OECD data resources, other websites, as well as a complete list of OECD publications and reports related to child well-being.
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