3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (566+ words) While the leadership of Chiro Youth Flanders and Scouts and Guides Flanders are launching the new youth work year, attracting new members is not straightforward everywhere. This may partly be due to the increasingly wide range of sports clubs and…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (233+ words) Balancing work and private life is not always straightforward. At the same time, Statbel's figures show that the need for care within families is very high: no fewer than 3.4 million Belgians provided care in 2025 for a child, grandchild, ill partner,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (274+ words) At least one guarded lifeguard station will open in every Belgian coastal municipality this weekend as the summer bathing season officially gets underway. The rescue service will be gradually expanded in the coming weeks, with all 83 lifeguard stations operational from…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (251+ words) Flemish Education minister Zuhal Demir has called for schools to place more focus on pen-and-paper learning after a new study found widespread use of artificial intelligence among teenagers. The Apenstaartjaren study showed that 77% of secondary school pupils use AI tools…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (464+ words) A record number of children and teenagers became victims of online sexual exploitation last year, according to the annual report of Child Focus. The organisation recorded 837 victims of sextortion, grooming and non-consensual sexting in 2025, more than double the 401 cases registered…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (274+ words) Around 14.4 per cent of children in Belgium live below the poverty line, defined as 60 per cent of the median income. That places Belgium eleventh among 41 high-income countries included in a comparison by the Innocenti research centre of UNICEF, published on…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (344+ words) Maurice & Nora, an Antwerp-based start-up connecting elderly people and families with students for non-medical home care, has raised one million euros in fresh funding, the company announced on Wednesday. Founded as a social-impact start-up, Maurice & Nora positions itself as a…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (302+ words) belganewsagency.eu Thousands of children affected by parental imprisonment remain “invisible” Across Belgium, an estimated 17,000 children are growing up with one or both parents in prison, including around 9,000 in Flanders, yet the group remains largely invisible due to the absence…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (308+ words) The Flemish government has reached an agreement to phase out intercountry adoptions, Flemish minister for Welfare Caroline Gennez announced on Monday. In recent years, numerous irregularities have come to light regarding international adoptions. For example, children arrived in Belgium supposedly…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (244+ words) belganewsagency.eu Number of adoptions at lowest level ever in Flanders In 2025, only 13 children were adopted in Flanders. The lowest number ever. All the adoptions were domestic, since adopting children from other countries has been forbidden since 2023. The trend of…...