Summit Comes to Salford
World Summit on Media for Children Returns to the UK
Director of BBC Childrens, Alice Webb, has announced that the BBC, in association with Marketing Manchester, has won the tender to host The World Summit on Media for Children in December 2017.
This is a major international conference which started in Australia in 1995, was next hosted in London in 1998, and has since been held every three years in different parts of the world, including Brazil, South Africa, Sweden and Malaysia.
There will be five themes:
- Empowerment
- Learning
- Entertainment
- Connection
- Protection
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