#children

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 ...

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 ...

More than 90 per cent of fathers, and more than 80 per cent of mothers in Cyprus work while more than three quarter of children on the island come from families owning ...

Julia Felton, Michigan State University and Crystal Cederna, Michigan State University Holidays are often depicted as picture-perfect moments: families blissfully united around a table filled with seasonal food favorites against ...

In 2023, 86.6 per cent of children in Cyprus aged between three years and the minimum compulsory school age received formal childcare or education for at least 25 hours per week, compared to 68 ...

Child poverty is a very real problem in Cyprus which cannot be ignored, and affects fundamental rights ranging from education, health and protection from every form of abuse, Children’s ...

By Tom Cleaver The ‘No child without a coat’ campaign was launched by the Aglandjia municipality and the Alkinoos Artemiou foundation for the third successive year on Monday. The foundation ...

A 16-year-old child was arrested on Thursday evening in connection with a string of break-ins, thefts, car thefts, and cases of vandalism which have taken place in Nicosia in recent ...

One in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished and famine is looming, the main U.N. agency operating in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday. “...

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 ...