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
The OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment
The OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment, adopted in May 2021, aims to help countries to find a balance between protecting children from online risks, and promoting the opportunities and benefits that the digital world provides. The Recommendation sets out principles for promoting a safe and beneficial digital environment for children, recommendations on overarching policy frameworks, and highlights the importance of international co-operation.
Read more about the Recommendation
What’s new?
- Play, create and learn: What matters most for five-year-olds (Nov 2021)
- Career readiness in the pandemic: A summary of project findings (Nov 2021) (See more recent work on career readiness)
- Schooling During a Pandemic: The Experience and Outcomes of Schoolchildren During the First Round of COVID-19 Lockdowns (Oct 2021)
- Using Digital Technologies for Early Education during COVID-19 (Oct 2021)
- Beyond Academic Learning: First results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (Sep 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
- Should education leaders be listening to children? (November 2021)
- Preparing youth for work: What really works in career guidance? (October 2021)
- 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)
- Ensuring a safe and beneficial digital environment for children (June 2021)
- Is curiosity a key to better early learning? (June 2021)
- Career Ready? Helping young people navigate the pandemic job market (January 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)
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More from the child well-being community
- Launch of the Global Partnership Strategy for Early Childhood, 2021-2030 (UNESCO, December 2021)
- The State of the World's Children 2021: On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children's mental health (UNICEF, October 2021)
- Life in Lockdown: Child and adolescent mental health and well-being in the time of COVID-19 (UNICEF-IRC, 2021)
- Growing up in lockdown: Europe’s children in the age of COVID-19 (Eurochild, November 2020)
- 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, April 2020)
- 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