The Changing Places Consortium has launched a survey to seek views on changing places toilets in Wales.

Ill health is one of the worst effects that poverty can have on a child’s life in the UK, according to a report published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty.

A group of Welsh Labour MPs have issued a call for the Welsh Assembly Government to make sex education a compulsory part of the curriculum in all schools.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced new measures to strengthen the travel restrictions on convicted child sex offenders.

The children’s charity, Children in Wales is co-hosting a major international conference in Cardiff at the end of September for experts from across the world.

The Children’s Commissioner for Wales has published a report looking at disabled children and young people’s opportunity to play.

ASH Wales and Ffaith, a youth advocacy project designed and run by young people, have published the results of a survey of young smokers around the South Wales Valleys.

The UK government should adopt a Bill of Rights for the UK, a cross-party committee of MPs and peers has urged.

The Welsh Assembly Government is consulting on a document that sets out proposals to use new powers offered by the Legislative Competence Order on Vulnerable Children and Child Poverty to reform the law so that local authorities and the NHS would be required to provide Integrated Family Support Services for vulnerable families.

The Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has published the 2008 edition of the international review of parental leave policies and research.

ECPAT UK has been funded by the Children’s Commissioners Office for Wales to consider what evidence there is for child trafficking in Wales.

Children’s Organisations in Wales are coming together at this year’s National Eisteddfod in Cardiff, with a week long programme of activities promoting children’s rights.

Children and young people attending the National Eisteddfod this week will be able to enter a competition to say what they would change to make things better for children and young people. The children’s charity, Children in Wales is distributing postcards at the Eisteddfod which ask “If you were running Wales what is the one thing you would do to make things better for children and young people?”

The Court of Appeal has outlawed the use of physical restraint methods on young people held in secure training centres.

The Home Office has announced that the age at which young people can enter the UK on a marriage visa is to be increased from 18 to 21.

The Rural Development Sub-Committee of the National Assembly for Wales has published a report on its inquiry into poverty and deprivation in rural Wales.

The National Assembly for Wales’ Enterprise and Learning Committee has launched a report on how best to provide support for people with dyslexia in Wales.

The First Minister has announced the Welsh Assembly Government's new legislative programme for 2008-9.

The Home Office has published its Youth Crime Action Plan which provides an analysis of what the UK Government is going to do to tackle youth crime.

The National Assembly for Wales has voted in favour of the final draft of the Vulnerable Children and Child Poverty Legislative Competence Order.