Since 1992 we've been providing extraordinary opportunities for families to play and learn together in our hands-on children's museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire. In that time, more than 5.5 million visitors to Eureka! have experienced first-hand the power of learning through play and the wider benefits of sharing...

It's easy for adults to vilify young people without really understanding them. Barnardos' recent research worryingly showed that the public has a negative view of children and young people, often viewing them as abusive, violent and even 'feral'. Our 20 years' of experience of working closely with and listening to...

Like Barnardos, we at Eureka! The National Children's Museum are disturbed by their research showing that the public has a negative view of children and young people as abusive, violent and even 'feral'. Most depressingly, it emerged that there is a real risk of giving up...

Following its study which placed UK children at the bottom of the well-being league table in 2007, Unicef have been looking at why children in the UK fare so badly against those in countries like Sweden and Spain.

They have found that inequality and materialism are to blame...