Category: CMF Newsletter
APPG Report: Age Verification for Adult Content Websites
April 28, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) APPG information, CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Online Harms: Not Written Off, but Written Down By Jayne Kirkham CMF Board member and Clerk to the APPG for Children’s Media and the Arts Age Verification (AV) for commercial online pornography sites was passed into law in the Digital Economy Act 2017. It was a hard won amendment so you can imagine the dismay as the Government […]
Communication, Language and Literacy Home Learning App Competition
February 21, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
By Olivia Dickinson Early last year, the Department for Education set up an expert panel to assess apps that would help young children with their communication, language and literacy before they start school. I was the Deputy Chair, and I was enthusiastic about the role and the panel, as I felt the DfE understood the […]
All Party Group for Children’s Media and The Arts, Inaugural Meeting
February 12, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
All Party Group for Children’s Media and the Arts Inaugural Meeting Wednesday 22nd January Palace of Westminster Report After the enforced hiatus of summer recess, conference season and a December General Election, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and the Arts is back on track. All groups have to re-register after a General […]
Brexit and Children’s Media
November 8, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Greg Childs is Director of the Children’s Media Foundation and Editorial Director of the Children’s Media Conference (CMC). With his Conference hat on he describes CMC’s latest event, produced in partnership with Animation UK and with funding from the government Brexit Business Readiness Fund… CMC can be relied upon to offer the most up-to-the-minute view of what’s […]
Sooner Rather Than Later
November 5, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
5Rights Foundation Calls For Swifter Legislation On Internet Safety The digital world was imagined as one in which all users would be equal, yet one third of internet users are children. This means that nearly one billion children are growing up in an environment that systematically fails to recognise their age and the protections, privileges, […]
Arts Education In Schools
November 4, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Cutting Back On Creativity By Nathan Guy Actor, Drama Coach and Drama Lead and Creative Support Teacher at Griffin Schools Trust Do we have time for creativity in schools? If not, we should make time. Arts education should not be for the privileged few but thrown like confetti and woven into the learning process of […]
How Support for CMF Benefits New Indies
October 4, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
James Hill is the Co-Founder and Director of Fudge Animation, which was a new start-up in 2014. Here, he explains how support for the Children’s Media Foundation has helped Fudge Animation grow the company and develop their portfolio. Fudge is a boutique, full-service animation studio and a producer of animated Children’s content. Our latest property, a […]
Parenting for the Digital Age
September 30, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 1
Stop Criticising Parents and Start Supporting Their Digital Practices By Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology Department of Media and Culture, LSE (Member of the CMF Academic Advisory Board) Society has high hopes and considerable fears for the digital future. On the one hand, parents are told – get your children coding so they have […]
Pushing the Preschool Envelope at CMC
September 30, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Priorities for Preschool In An Age Of Change Gary Pope, Co-Founder, Kids Industries Speaker, Moderator and Member of the Advisory Committee for CMC The work that goes on behind the scenes at The Children’s Media Conference is phenomenal. A world-class programme doesn’t just materialise overnight. The advisory committee, which I am super-proud to sit […]
A Reason To Be Cheerful – Part 1. The £57 million Young Audiences Content Fund
August 19, 2019 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
By Jackie Edwards Head of the Young Audiences Content Fund at the BFI It’s a funny old world… Although there doesn’t seem to be a lot to laugh about currently. Leaving all the global, European and British political brow-furrowing items aside, and looking just at our own British kids’ media industry doorstep – we’ve not […]