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February 28, 2023 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
Safer Internet Day began as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004, and was taken up by the Insafe Network in 2005. It is now celebrated in approximately 170 countries. In the UK, Safer Internet Day is coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centre (a partnership between Childnet International, Internet Watch Foundation and […]
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December 10, 2022 Greg Childs APPG information, CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
CMF acts as the “clerk” to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Children’s Media and the Arts, which we co-founded with Action for Children’s Arts over ten years ago. An APPG is a cross-party grouping of MPs and peers interested in a particular issue or set of issues – who want to hear the latest […]
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October 5, 2022 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Greg Childs, Director of CMF, assesses the current issues facing children’s media makers and the young audience. Huge plans for change are under discussion – but are any of the responsible parties listening to the many advocates for young people – or to the young people themselves? The Coroner’s verdict in the Molly Russell Inquest was […]
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February 20, 2022 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
Tuesday 8 February 2022 was Safer Internet Day. CMF Exec Group member Cecilia Weiss attended the core event Safer Internet Day first started as an initiative of the EU Safe Borders project in 2004. It’s now held across 200 countries. In the UK, Safer Internet Day is coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centre, made […]
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December 9, 2021 Greg Childs APPG information, CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
60 children’s specialists from across the creative industries gathered in the House of Lords on 25 November 2021 as guests of Baroness Floella Benjamin to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and the Arts. Guests included Sir Tony Robinson, Julian Lloyd-Webber, BBC Director of Children’s and Education, […]
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June 20, 2021 Christine Singer CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
By Olivia Dickinson, CMF Diversity and Inclusion Lead This year the theme of the Children’s Media Conference is ‘Together’. As the exec for the Inclusivity Now video strand, and the member of the executive group responsible for Diversity and Inclusion at the Children’s Media Foundation, I wanted to reflect on how my work for […]
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June 20, 2021 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Colin Ward, CMF’s Deputy Director and Editor of the Report: Our Children’s Future – Does Children’s Media Matter on launch plans. At the end of 2020, the CMF began a major campaign to highlight the failure of government to protect the production, at scale, of UK-originated, culturally-relevant content for our children. The aim of the campaign […]
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June 20, 2021 Christine Singer CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
By Jayne Kirkham, CMF Executive Group Member for political and governmental liaison On Tuesday 6th July, 11-12noon, CMC will be staging its Question Time session. There’s a long tradition of the Children’s Media Foundation producing the content for this. I’m one of those people that ‘don’t do politics’. I couldn’t tell you what the deputy chancellor of […]
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May 16, 2021 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
CMF Director Greg Childs contributed to the Lego Group’s recent industry stakeholder research into children and technology. On April 28th 2021 he attended a roundtable to hear the results. Lego commissioned BritainThinks to research key stakeholder views about the current relationship between children and technology, focusing in particular on: The benefits and harms […]
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May 16, 2021 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Press Release,
The Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport has announced that it is removing 25% of the budget for the Young Audiences Content Fund, before the three year pilot scheme is completed. This represents, according to Broadcast Magazine, around 20 productions which will not now be funded. Having fought long and hard for the Fund, […]
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