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.

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?”

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.

A new member of staff at Children in Wales has started work to reduce the unintentional deaths and injuries of children and young people in Wales.

A plan to reduce the number of accidents that children in Wales have has been published by Children in Wales.

Children in Wales welcomes the UK Government White Paper which outlines proposals to make it a legal requirement for both parents to register a child’s birth jointly unless it can be shown that this might harm the child in some way.

A new network to support professionals who work with children of migrant workers has been set up by Children in Wales.

Campaigners for disabled children and young people have published a manifesto for disabled children ahead of the local elections on 1 May 2008. The manifesto has been produced by the Disabled Children Matter Wales Campaign, which aims to ensure that all disabled children and young people have the same everyday opportunities as other children and young people.

Professionals from across Wales are meeting at a conference in Cardiff today to discuss the importance of intervening early for disabled children.

Refugee and asylum seeking children in Wales are to benefit from increased levels of protection through the work of a new development officer at Children in Wales.

A new report, published by Children in Wales highlights some of the key issues disadvantaging families in rural Wales. These include problems accessing transport, a lack of services and leisure opportunities and a lack of affordable housing. The report “Families not areas suffer rural disadvantage, Support for Rural Families in Wales” is the result of research which considered the problems rural families face and effective ways of delivering services to them. It found that many services tend to be focused in more urban areas of counties or in geographical areas of high deprivation.

'Sdim Curo Plant!/Children Are Unbeatable! are launching a new toolkit to help change attitudes to smacking at the Senedd in Cardiff on March 13th 2008.

On 17 October, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Catriona Williams, Chief Executive of Children in Wales and President of Eurochild, urges EU member states to keep fighting child poverty

Children in Wales welcomes the establishment of an Assembly Scrutiny Committee for Children and Young People as agreed by the National Assembly for Wales yesterday. Children in Wales also welcomes the members of the Committee and hopes to work closely with them in the future.

Organisers of a key conference in Cardiff, South Wales to mark United Nations Eradication of Poverty Day (October 17) and Parents Week (16 – 20 October) have called on the Welsh Assembly Government to make the fight against child poverty in Wales its number one priority.

This important conference in Cardiff will examine the role emotional literacy plays in promoting emotional wellbeing in children and young people and how policy makers and professionals can use it effectively.

School staff will hear how they can support bereaved children and how bereavement and loss can be included in the curriculum at a conference organised by Children in Wales, the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) and Cruse Bereavement Care as part of CBN’s Grief Matters for Children campaign

UNICEF Report, Innocenti Research Centre, Report Card 7

Extra costs at schools have potential to “isolate, exclude and stigmatise” children living in poverty.

Conference on links between parents and schools in Wales identify key groups