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Renske Keizer (32, mother of three) will this week officially become the first Professor on Fatherhood in the world. Coming Friday she will formally inaugurate her Chair on Fatherhood at… Read more

The MenCare campaign has launched the MenCare Parental Leave Platform, a ten-point plan calling on governments and employers to improve their policies on leave for new parents. The platform was… Read more

The Bernard van Leer Foundation's Senior Advisor, Joan Lombardi, has won the 2016 Blanche F. Ittleson Award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association. The award recognises outstanding achievement in delivering children’s… Read more

Now available to download in pdf, The State of Young Children in Israel 2015 is a new report commissioned by the Bernard van Leer Foundation and prepared by the Israel… Read more

The Brookings Institute has launched two new reports on social impact bonds: one analysing how they can be used to scale up early childhood programmes, and another examining their current… Read more

On 6 and 7 June 2016, the first Early Childhood Education Action Congress will be held in Paris, hosted by OECD. This event will bring together 450 leaders from many… Read more

The Foundation has formally partnered with the government of Odisha, one of India's 29 states, on two initiatives to improve opportunities for young children. The first Memorandum of Understanding commits… Read more

MA students at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are now able to take a course in urban planning for early childhood, an initiative of the Bernard van Leer Foundation… Read more

Last month 150 participants gathered in Gopalpur, Odisha, to discuss strategies for scaling up mother tongue based early childhood education to improve Indian tribal children's chances of succeeding in school. Read more

Ahmet Misbah Demircan, the Mayor of Beyoğlu - a municipality in greater Istanbul - painted wooden toys with his daughter, Erbe, last month at a father-child playgroup event to launch… Read more