Here you will see news from Europe, from civil society, from research, highlighting emerging trends from local to international level relevant for families of today.
Last October, APF France handicap has launched a Citizens’ Debate on social protection. Through this initiative, the association wanted to experiment with a new form of democracy based on deliberation. They have recently published the result of this work in a citizen's opinion entitled "Social protection and solidarity: what social model for tomorrow?".
The report of the conference to celebrate the 2021 European Day of Persons with Disabilities has just been published. The online conference brought together more than 400 politicians, high-level experts, and disability advocates.
Spanish society values families and family life highly, but the way that families look and live has been changing drastically over the past decades. From being one of the countries with the highest fertility rates in Europe, Spain now has the lowest rate in the region and the legalisation of divorce and social acceptance of co-habitation has led to a decline in the traditional nuclear family model.
The European Commission's 2022 European Semester Spring Package provides the Member States with support and guidance two years on from the first impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the midst of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
As adults, we can feel pretty sure that we know what children need and want. The problem is that we are often wrong. In the DigiGen project focusing on the impact of technological transformation on children and young people, we engaged in research with children and families across Europe.
Establishing a safe and fair European consumer credit market needs to be at the heart of the ongoing review of the EU Consumer Credit Directive (CCD), the EU directive designed to provide consumer protection for this market.
COFACE’s member CEAFA has recently published its manual for the training and support of carers of people with dementia that was developed within the framework of the Spanish Strategy for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the NHS and reviewed by CEAFA.
The Bonniconlon local guild of the Irish Countrywomen`s Association (member of COFACE Families Europe) has worked hard to organise a public debate on International Day of Families which focuses on celebrating 50 years of Ireland in the European Union.
There is a lot of discussion in the common discourse revolving around fears that digital technologies are harming children’s wellbeing. Digigen’s latest working paper presents an innovative multimodal approach to investigating how digital transformation affects children and young people’s free time.
