The new generation’s health and wellbeing is of paramount importance: it constitutes United Nations’ priority, complies with Children’s Rights and responds to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
This paper presents the first rigorous evaluation of school-based interventions aimed at reducing LGBTphobia. We focus on a classroom intervention that addresses the issue of LGBT harassment through perspective-taking and narrative exchange.
This technical note explores whether climate finance could play a greater role in enabling governments to accelerate the expansion of school feeding programmes.
Earlier in November 2024, representatives from more than 100 countries attended the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children.
This study adopts a children’s rights approach to the problem of violence, including gender-based and sexual violence, against and between children to outline how age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education is a powerful tool to prevent and end violence against and between children.
A new report published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores the strengths and weaknesses of free school meals (FSM) and Pupil Premium (PP) as measures for identifying disadvantaged pupils in England.
This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches.
Objectives: To examine the acceptability of implementing, trialling and estimating the cost of the Sexual health and healthy relationships for Further Education (SaFE) intervention.
The announcement in 2023 of a new policy to provide free school meals to every primary aged child in state-funded schools in London was a significant milestone in school food policy in England. It meant that an additional 270,000 children across London were newly entitled.
The Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland study is a sequel to the 2016 LGBTIreland study which highlighted that although many of the participants within LGBTQI+ communities were experiencing positive wellbeing, a sizable minority were experiencing high levels of mental distress and mental health challenges.