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Children’s Week is a national celebration of children’s rights, talents and citizenship held on the fourth Wednesday of October in Australia to coincide with Universal Children’s Day. Each year the theme of Children’s Week highlights a particular Children’s Right.
Children’s Week is a national celebration of children’s rights, talents and citizenship held on the fourth Wednesday of October in Australia to coincide with Universal Children’s Day. Each year the theme of Children’s Week highlights a particular Children’s Right.
The Children’s Week National Theme for 2024 is based on UNCRC Article 24:
Children have the right to a clean and safe environment.
Children’s Week 2024 will be held between 19 October – 27 October.
More information about resources and activities relating to Children’s Week 2024 will be added to this page closer to the date.
Children’s Week is run by different organisations in each state and territory and many of these have their own websites. To link to information about Children’s Week in your state or territory go to the national Children’s Week website. NAPCAN supports Children’s Week in the Northern Territory (see information below) and is also a member of the Queensland Children’s Week Committee.
Children’s Week is celebrated with a wide range of events including large, small, face-to-face and online. Use the links to NAPCAN’s Events Calendar below to register your event or see what else is happening.
Children and young people learn and grow when they can play in lots of different ways.
We’ve created the Children’s Rights Activity to invite children and young people to tell us about ways they play, relax and have fun, and why this is important to them.
In addition to supporting Children’s Week at the national level, NAPCAN is directly involved at the state and territory level in:
