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The number of caesarean sections performed in Cyprus remains particularly high and continues to rise, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Saturday, adding that efforts are underway to gradually reduce ...

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 35-year-old mother in Limassol on Tuesday as part of an investigation into alleged child assault, following a complaint by the infant’s ...

Pupils of the nursery school and primary school in the village of Akrotiri, both of which have been closed for a week in the aftermath of a drone strike on ...

The Little Heroes Foundation held its ninth charity swimming event for children suffering from cancer on Saturday in Limassol. Participants swam a 1.5-kilometre route, finishing at the pier of the ...

The education ministry has set January 12–16, 2026 as the official registration and transfer period for public kindergartens for the 2026–27 school year. This will be the only registration window. No new class ...

Ethnikos Defteras football club will be closing a road on Saturday in a symbolic gesture to protest “threats and intimidation” faced by the academy’s children, as well as attempts ...

To address declining birth rates, Archbishop Georgios announced on Thursday the immediate launch of a new financial support scheme for families with more than three children, amounting to around €2 million ...

The office of the children’s right’s commissioner will have its budget increased by 23 per cent next year, its new commissioner Elena Pericleous said on Friday. Addressing the House ...

Cyprus has joined five other European leaders in calling for the introduction of a common “digital age of adulthood” across the European Union, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Wednesday. The ...

Young people in Cyprus move out of the family home at the average age of 27.2, making them some of the oldest youngsters to leave home within the EU, Eurostat data ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Wednesday underscored the importance of investing in the health and protection of society’s youngest members, on the occasion of World Patient Day, which this ...

School bus services will begin on Friday, the transport ministry announced. It added that during the first few weeks of the buses’ operation, the routes may change as new children ...

Parents or guardians of students in primary education are obliged to immediately contact the school in the event of their child’s absence, to “avoid unpleasant situations”, the education ministry ...

In a major step towards enhancing child safety in Cypriot football, the health ministry and the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) have launched a joint initiative to train hundreds of football ...

Parents and children’s guardians are now liable to monetary fines if the children are absent from nursery school without notification, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. If ...

The parents of the 22-month-old child that was admitted to hospital with second degree burns after being left in a bathtub with scalding water, on Wednesday were remanded in custody ...

Children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou, met with President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday to present her annual report, which outlines an increase in issues affecting children on the island. “There ...

Staffing, infrastructure, day-long schooling and security at nursery schools were among issues raised by parents’ associations during Wednesday’s House education committee meeting, demands which they were pleased to say ...

An event celebrating the delivery of new accessible playground equipment took place at Pavlos Melas park in Larnaca. The initiative, spearheaded by the volunteer group Mikroi Ethelontes (Little Volunteers), aims ...

Four cases of measles have been reported in infants attending the same nursery, with all currently receiving treatment in the hospital. The infants, aged 17, 16, 14, and 13 months, had not been vaccinated ...

Children born in Cyprus to one Cypriot parent and the other from a third country are being denied Cypriot citizenship and complaints have spurred the House human rights committee to ...

The Antonis Tsokkos primary school in Ayia Napa is grappling with severe overcrowding, as nearly 200 of its 360 pupils are non-native Greek speakers from 24 countries. This challenge was highlighted during a ...

Jack Jiang, The New School In the first few days after Donald Trump’s election in November 2024, purchases of emergency contraceptives spiked, with two companies reporting sales about 1,000% higher than ...

The education ministry announced on Thursday that the electronic administration system eDea has been successfully implemented, with a significant number of parents and guardians already using it to register their ...