Tasks

For children, young persons and families to enjoy living in our cities, the Cities for Children particularly want to promote the following aims:

• Each child should be supported according to its talents and receive an education providing him/her fair chances in the future.
• Families with children should be provided with affordable housing and formal and informal public space to play.
• Health prevention, healthy eating and medical services for parents and children should be implemented at the highest possible level.
• The compatibility between family and profession, children and career, is to be improved for parents by adapting working conditions of families and by providing high-quality affordable child care according to the needs of families.
• A new "local contract between the generations" should support the interaction between old and young with new networks of mutual assistance and aid in a structured way.
• Participation of children and young persons in decision-making processes and public life should be encouraged. In this context, youth initiatives should be supported and the activities of youth organizations should be promoted. Further, children and young persons should be made aware of the challenges of sustainable development and become actors of sustainable development in cities.
• Safety of our children in traffic and their protection against crime should be guaranteed.