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Parliament is expected next week to vote on the expansion of free and compulsory pre-primary education to include children aged four years old and above. The planned vote comes after ...

The Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare announced Monday that support for single-parent families had been disbursed. This decision was made during the ministry council meeting on February 21st. Eligible recipients ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos expressed his gratitude for Shriners Children’s hospital team on Tuesday morning on a visit to Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia. Shriners hospital doctors have ...

The Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre (HFC) provided services to more than 8,340 children in Cyprus in 2023, the organisation said on Tuesday, reviewing its work for the past year. HFC ...

Another migrant child was taken to Makarios hospital’s ICU from the Pournara reception centre, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Friday. The child, who has ...

A 12-year-old from Paphos was injured on Thursday after driving a car into a ditch and then a tree, after which the car ended up on its roof. Paphos police’...

Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia remains 95 per cent occupied with young patients suffering from respiratory infections, flu and some Covid 19, but mainly with RSV, the director of the paediatric ...

The paediatric ward at Makarios Hospital is 90 per cent full with children suffering with respiratory infections, the department chief Dr Avraam Elias said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

The families of the 24 Cypriot children killed when the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, Turkey, collapsed, have demanded those held criminally responsible for the deaths be charged with intentionally killing all 24 ...

Three children were hit by cars in Paphos on Monday, all of which had to receive hospital treatment while police were trying to uncover how the accidents happened. Paphos spokesman ...

By Andri Agathokleous Socio-emotional learning and wellbeing in early childhood education are attracting growing attention, as researchers continuously emphasise their drastic benefits for children at the start of, and across, ...

Young people in Cyprus are at the highest risk of experiencing severe material and social deprivation, state statistical service Cystat said on Tuesday. Their figures showed that in 2022, a total ...

The alarmingly poor level of children’s health on the island was highlighted by presenters at the 9th Cyprus Public Health Day conference held at Tepak’s international institute for ...

Almost a fifth of children in Cyprus are “at risk of poverty or social exclusion”, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. The figures, compiled in 2022, show that ...

‘In Cyprus, there always seems to be someone willing to tell you you’re doing it all wrong!’ Alix Norman meets a Larnaca mum who’s sick of being judged ...

When Howard Passes emailed me about the charitable work of his international fraternal organisation, I hadn’t realized that brotherhoods, such as these, extended so far across the globe, so ...

Every year 42 new cases of cancer in children are recorded in Cyprus, a stable but worrying trend, although survival rates remained very high, a paediatrician and oncologist said on Tuesday. ...

With a generous state subsidy ‘a lot more women than we realise choose to freeze their eggs’ Cypriot women are increasingly “shutting their ears to outdated ideas” and moving to ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari unveiled a new children’s health awareness campaign on Tuesday called the Children’s Protection Shield. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of ...

A group of children animated the characters of Batman, Minnie Mouse, Frozen, Spiderman, and various other beloved children’s heroes, transforming a section of the parking area at Larnaca airport ...

Hope for Children group doing a sterling job of supporting abused minors Cyprus, where at least one in four children is believed to have been sexually abused, needs to invest ...

A mother of ten and grandmother of 23 said she wanted as many children as God wished to send her but that the state can do more to support large families. “...

The director of the prosthetics and orthopaedics department from Shriners Hospital travelled to Cyprus over the last four days to provide specialised care, an announcement from the George and Thelma ...

The “very serious restrictions” imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic may have had unintended consequences which explain the unusually high rate of respiratory illnesses in children this winter, according to a ...