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Urban95 Academy and LSE Cities host roundtable on caregiver wellbeing to mark Early Childhood Matters launch
The Urban95 Academy participated in an information sharing session with a delegation from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
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.
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’.
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.
The Urban95 Academy leadership programme, first launched in 2021 by LSE Cities and the Van Leer Foundation, will continue for a further three years.
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.
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.
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.