City for Children Department
The City for Children Department works on projects that improve safety around schools and support play, outdoor activity, and children’s active mobility. We help communities transform streets in their neighbourhoods so that children have better access to safe public space and greater freedom to move around independently.
We focus primarily on the areas around schools, which are natural centres of neighbourhoods and places where the needs of children, parents, school staff, and local residents come together. The department manages the City for Children programme, which combines participation by school communities, data collection, and the design of traffic and spatial measures to improve conditions for pedestrians.
More information about the programme, completed locations, activities, and opportunities to get involved is available on the dedicated website.
The role of the department is to:
- cooperate with school communities to improve safety around schools,
- collect and evaluate data on movement, safety, and people’s behaviour around schools,
- prepare and coordinate traffic and spatial measures that calm traffic and improve the quality of public space,
- involve children, parents, schools, neighbourhoods, and local stakeholders in the planning process,
- develop children’s active and independent mobility, especially walking and cycling,
- support play, outdoor activity, and community life in neighbourhoods,
- cooperate with city districts, the city’s expert departments, schools, and partners,
- create methodologies, tools, and examples of good practice for a safer and more child-friendly city.
