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Leveraging what we know about Caregiver Wellbeing

Urban95 Academy and LSE Cities host roundtable on caregiver wellbeing to mark Early Childhood Matters launch

February 6, 2025
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Exploring child-friendly urban policy and declining birth rates

The Urban95 Academy participated in an information sharing session with a delegation from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

January 16, 2025
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What does it look like to build child-friendly and care-centred cities?

Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities and Urban95 Academy Manager, joined Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, co-hosts of the Mother Of It All Podcast, to chat about what child-friendly, care-centred city design looks like in practice.

January 8, 2025
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Where children grow up is important to their life outcomes

Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities and Marie Kaune, Researcher at LSE Cities represented the Urban95 Academy at the House of Lords for the launch of a new TCPA policy report ‘Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where young people live’.

December 3, 2024
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How do the spaces and places of London impact children and young people?

Katie Beck, Policy Fellow and Urban95 Academy Manager at LSE Cities joined the London Child Poverty Summit hosted by the Childhood Trust as a panellist.

October 14, 2024
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Hundreds more city leaders will benefit from LSE leadership programme, improving the lives of young children globally

The Urban95 Academy leadership programme, first launched in 2021 by LSE Cities and the Van Leer Foundation, will continue for a further three years.

November 30, 2023
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Kids teach city leaders a lesson at the London School of Economics

For six week, mayors and other city officials from around the world are putting themselves in the shoes of young children, babies and caregivers to see what living in a city is like from those perspectives.

October 1, 2022
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London becomes the classroom for the Urban95 Academy residence week

In May 2022, 27 committed city officials from 10 cities arrived in London to take part in five intensive days of in-person teaching, workshops and site visits during the Urban95 Academy residence week at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

July 5, 2022
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Urban95 Academy Launched

100 city leaders from 30 cities have begun the first academic course of the Urban95 Academy, a leadership programme designed to make cities more child-friendly.

January 20, 2022