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The children are taking over
We started on 1 September, live from the town hall in Amsterdam.
Local news, presented in an international perspective. What happens in one municipality is almost never only about that municipality — children everywhere are asking the same questions. So we tell our local news in a way the rest of the world can follow.
And I want more than a show. I want a newsroom in the town hall.
Young reporters working in the same building as the people who make the decisions. Every week, the same question asked out loud: what are the adults in this town actually doing for the children who live here?
This is already running.
For years, ChildPress reporters have been checking out what adults do for children. Now we do it every week.
We watch every adult around the child
The Prime Minister said change has to be homegrown. So we start with the adults closest to a child and work outwards — and we ask every one of them the same thing: what are you doing for the children?
Parents & teachers
Council members
Mayors & deputy mayors
Prime ministers & government
Nobel Peace Prize laureates
Parliaments
Librarians
Scientists & journalistsEvery article has a name on it
Every article of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is covered by a council member. No article goes unwatched — and no council member does either.
We report what we find
Then we say it out loud, on the show, every week. Not a complaint — a report.
What we keep an eye on:
“Go and talk to your mayor.”
This is not only our idea. It is the Prime Minister’s answer too.
“We really should take their concerns seriously, because they will live with the consequences of politics.” Jonas Gahr Støre · Prime Minister of Norway
A ChildPress reporter from New York City asked him what advice he has for young people who want to get involved — and for leaders who want the youth perspective.
His answer: it has to be homegrown. Children are vulnerable, but they are also the ones who will live the longest lives in society. There are rights to be heard, to be seen, to be listened to — and from that come the child boards and youth participation in the municipalities.
And then the sentence we want you to remember: go back and talk to your mayor.
Do adults know enough to decide for us?
We asked on the street and fact-checked at the library. This is what children said.
The reporters pictured are the ChildPress team who went out and asked. Said in Norwegian, translated here — the originals are in the printed edition, “Vet de voksne nok til å bestemme for oss?”
Every adult in Norway has to make sure no child is bullied — at school, in their free time, or online.
Every child should be seen and heard. They should have the right to speak.
I want more activity at school — we sit still far too much!
Children should help decide whether they get more homework or less.
No child in Norway should feel left out.
Every child in Norway should get free school meals.
Playgrounds should be open to every child with a disability.
Free buses for everyone, in every municipality!
We want an activity card for every child in Norway.
Every child should be safe at school and at nursery.
I want greener transport — build more railway and less road — and every adult has to care about the environment.
Every child needs one trusted person to confide in.
Who takes responsibility for teaching children to include everyone in our society?
I want ChildPress as a subject you can choose at school.
Fourteen answers, four years ago. Ask yourself how many of them your municipality has done anything about since.
Who should I trust?
Anyone can say they care about children. Finding out who actually does something is the work.
I pick the subject
Something that matters to me — not something an adult handed me.
Who says they act on it?
Who has claimed this is their job, their promise, their responsibility?
I find them on the map
The ChildPress World Map: who does what for children, and where.
I check what they really do
Not what they say. What has actually happened since they said it.
I ask for an interview
And I ask them the question to their face, with the microphone on.
That last step is the one adults are not used to. A promise made to a child on camera is a promise we can come back to — and we do.
Eight principles for dialogue
Finding the right adult is half the job. The other half is the conversation itself. These are the Nobel Peace Center’s eight principles for dialogue, and the talent ChildPress trains alongside each one.
Dialogue should be a way of being
Dialog bør være en grunnholdning
- Case study
- Tenzin Gyatso
- Talent
- Natural talent · existential awareness
Dialogue does not begin with talking, but with how you are present in the world.
Create a safe space
Skap trygge rom
- Case study
- Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan
- Talent
- Spatial talent
Safety does not appear by itself — it has to be made.
Invite everyone in
Inviter alle med
- Case study
- Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
- Talent
- Numerical & analytical talent
Who is affected? And who is missing?
In dialogue you have to listen
I dialog må man lytte
- Case study
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Talent
- Movement & action talent
Active listening is an activity.
Let everyone share what they have lived
La alle dele sine erfaringer
- Case study
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Talent
- Musical talent
Ask questions
Still spørsmål
- Case study
- Shirin Ebadi
- Talent
- Language talent
A good question is both precise and respectful.
Talk about what is difficult
Snakk om det som er vanskelig
- Case study
- Nadia Murad
- Talent
- Intrapersonal talent · sensing
Real dialogue takes inner courage.
Help forgiveness and reconciliation
Bidra til tilgivelse og forsoning
- Case study
- Desmond Mpilo Tutu
- Talent
- Interpersonal talent · community
Community is a democratic force.
The eight principles are published by the Nobel Peace Center at nobelpeacecenter.org/dialog. ChildPress uses them as a starting point and turns them into a teaching model for children, young reporters and teachers.
Norway asked the children. Then nobody checked what happened next.
This is what happens when nobody comes back to check.
In 2022 the Freedom of Expression Commission did the right thing: it met children, discussed them in its report, and published a child-friendly summary. Four years on, no study has asked whether children in Norway actually take part more.
Barneombudet named the weak point at the time — it is not enough to listen to children, you have to be able to see where what they said entered the decision.
- Exists The evaluation of the situation, 2022
- Exists A critical review — the consultation round
- Exists Government follow-up, the 2025 strategy
- Not found Any independent study of what actually changed
- Not found Any check on whether children now take part more
A consultation nobody checks up on is a conversation with a wall. Children notice that faster than adults do.
5 great mayors found.
Only 345 to go.
In Norway we have started to check out every mayor in the country.
What does each mayor know about their own youth council — who is in it, what it does, and what happens when children speak up? We are finding out, one municipality at a time. That is a lot of town halls for one youth board.
So: will you join our search?
Three steps, and you are on the news.
Say yes
Your youth council joins the weekly World News show. One council, one slot, every week.
Pick your reporters
Choose who reports from your municipality — and ask your mayor for a corner of the town hall to work from.
Check your mayor
Start with your own. Take one mayor off the list of 345, and put one more town hall on the map.
Who is already doing this
Every question on this page was asked by a child, holding a ChildPress microphone.
And 33 mayors and deputy mayors are already on the map.
Every one we met at Arendalsuka 2026, pinned to the municipality they come from — the ones we have covered, and the ones still to interview. Look for your own.
Open the map full screenArendalsuka
We met mayors from across Norway — and the Prime Minister.
Amsterdam
The weekly World News show starts, from the town hall.
Tromsø
This invitation, to fifteen fellow county youth councils.
Will you join our search?
Bring your youth council. Take one mayor off the list. Put one more town hall on the map — and take over the news in your own town.