Can social media become more ‘social’?
On this Safer Internet Day, COFACE Families Europe is calling on providers of social media platforms to make sure that their platforms are safe, secure and respect people's privacy and human rights.
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On this Safer Internet Day, COFACE Families Europe is calling on providers of social media platforms to make sure that their platforms are safe, secure and respect people's privacy and human rights.
COFACE Families Europe and the Odisee Centre for Family Studies in Brussels co-hosted a European conference in Brussels in September 2025. The conference convened 100+ researchers, policymakers, public administrators, and NGOs to advance integrated, place-based...
On 18 November 2025, the French National Assembly voted in favour of creating a new birth leave as part of the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) for 2026. The measure marks an important step forward for families in France and a major advocacy success for UNAF (Union nationale des associations familiales), a member organisation of COFACE Families Europe, which has been calling for this reform for more than ten years.
The European Commission launched a new online survey to hear directly from children and young people about their views on the European Child Guarantee.
One of COFACE Families Europe’s member organisations, Centro per la Salute delle Bambine e dei Bambini (CSB Onlus), has launched a new column entitled Words that Nourish.
To mark World Deaf Day 2025, COFACE Families Europe member FIAPAS has released its Manifesto for the Right to Hear.
COFACE Families Europe’s Belgian member organisation, Ligue des Familles, has launched an important new service to support parents: Allo Info Parents.
On 23–24 October 2025, COFACE Families Europe took part in the 2025 eTwinning Annual Conference, which brought together teachers, schools, and education stakeholders from across Europe to celebrate and explore how education can foster active citizenship, democratic...
Associazione Genitori Tosti in Tutti i Posti, a network of family carers in Italy, have issued an open letter to ask whether work on the Italian law on the recognition of family carers will resume shortly in Italy and whether the fund for family carers, established...