• The Good Childhood Inquiry is 'seeking to open an inclusive debate on what makes for a good childhood today that will shape future policy and inspire all our relationships with children.' 

The inquiry will:
* Listen to the voices and views of children, young people and adults about their experience and understanding of childhood in the UK today.

* Identify and address the most important issues facing children and young people in the UK today.

* Make recommendations to improve the way in which childhood is experienced and understood in the UK today.

The Good Childhood Inquiry would like to invite you to join them at their upcoming event:

Good Childhood Forum: Mental Health and Well-being
21 April 2008, 09.30 – 11.45am, London

The Good Childhood Inquiry, The Children’s Society’s independent inquiry into what makes for a good childhood in the 21st century, will unveil evidence on its fifth theme, Health, on 21 April 2008 and you can be part of it. The Good Childhood Forum will provide an opportunity to participate and engage in discussion about current trends in mental health, the opportunities for family-based interventions and the economic implications. Register to ensure you don’t miss this provocative and groundbreaking event. This is an exciting opportunity for you to contribute to the debate around The Good Childhood Inquiry and help shape childhood in the future. Make sure you are part of the bigger picture by registering now.

Register by 7 April 2008 by emailing hal@childsoc.org.uk .
Registration details and more information are also available here.

• RSA Risk Commission - The Risk Commission aims to examine and contextualise risk in our modern society. In particular it is looking at all aspects of risk in childhood.  The RSA Risk Commission's report on Risk and Childhood was launched with a major one-day conference on 31.10.07.  Professor Robin Alexander, Director of the Primary Review, was one of the speakers at this conference.
  
  
• Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) - The Charter on Primary Schooling was released 1.10.07 and was 'the result of a forum which examined two key questions: “What should primary schools be like?” and “What is the purpose of primary schools?”'
  
  
• Unicef - Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries 'brings together the best of currently available data providing an overview of the state of childhood in the majority of economically advanced nations of the world. The report for the first time measures and compares overall child well-being across six dimensions: material well-being, health and safety, education...'  This report was released 14.02.07.