Author: Author Archive
‘Story’: Equipment for Life
August 12, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) Yearbook 2026, 1
Mikael Shields is the producer, team writer and series voice director for Bing, at Acamar Films and leads on Acamar’s Again! Again! channel. He has worked on film and television projects including: Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit, Pingu, Bafta-winning Hilltop Hospital, the multi-award winning Flatworld, and Rex The Runt, Noddy, Funny Bones, Operavox, The Animals of […]
Value Framework Update
July 1, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
CMF Deputy Director Colin Ward outlines the latest progress on CMF’s innovative Value Framework concept… In February, the CMF announced it was developing a Value Framework to encourage government, regulators and video streaming services to focus their efforts on one of the key challenges we need to address; how do we ensure UK children access a […]
CMF Submission to the DSIT Consultation: Growing up in the Online World.
May 26, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
CMF Submission to the DSIT Consultation: Growing up in the Online World. Holding Big Tech to Its Own Promises: The Case for Mandatory Audits Over a Social Media Ban Our Position The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) supports the Children’s Coalition for Online Safety’s call for meaningful, evidence-led reform of the online environment for children. […]
The Future of the BBC
March 30, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
BBC CHARTER REVIEW 2028 Key Recommendations from the Children’s Media Foundation Submitted in response to the Government Green Paper | March 2025 This briefing summarises the Children’s Media Foundation’s submission to the BBC Charter Review Green Paper. The CMF argues that the current Public Purposes are directionally sound but structurally incomplete – and that the […]
Children’s Media Summit ’26 Opening Speech
February 24, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Baroness Beeban Kidron opened the second Children’s Media Summit with a speech which addressed some of the key issues facing the children’s audience, the creators of content that serves them, and the platforms that now control how they see that content. I want to start with making two observations. First is that the media of […]
Regulate, regulate, regulate!
January 5, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Over the festive season and around the world, a few new laws came into force that one way or another affect children and their media providers. CMF executive committee member Jackie Edwards takes a look at them and offers a timely reminder. On the 5th January 2026 new legislation came into force in the UK […]
From recognition to real-world change: children’s rights in the digital environment
January 5, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
As childhood becomes ever more deeply shaped by digital technologies, the LSE’s Digital Futures for Children (DFC) Centre marked World Children’s Day on 20 November 2025, by convening a public lecture and expert roundtable to focus on a critical question: what difference has the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment No. 25 […]
British Screen Forum Annual Conference 2025
December 1, 2025 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
On 19th November, the British Screen Forum held its annual conference. Media consultant and CMF Board member, Helen McAleer went along to listen and report back. It was a day packed full of panels and keynote speeches and debate from some of the highest calibre professionals in the screen industry. The keynote was presented by […]
Losing Our Stories: Why Britain Must Fight for Its Children’s and Family Film Future
November 9, 2025 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Multi-award winning film and TV producer and CMF Executive Committee member, Ken Anderson is working with partners across the UK to strengthen the Children’s & Family Screen Sector. He offers a timely reminder that securing children’s media content on all platforms includes the big screen and that UK’s children’s and family film is of, not […]
Closer Than Ever…
August 1, 2025 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Jenny Buckland, CEO at the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, on the ups and downs of regulatory and funding support in Australia, and the inevitable similarities in audience migration across the world. Although we’re at the opposite ends of the planet, these days we are perhaps closer than ever, since the whole world can watch The […]