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This document sets out the proposals
made by Barcelona's children
to improve their wellbeing. #AgendaInfants
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The Children's Agenda 
is part of the programme The Children Have Their Say: The Wellbeing of Children in Barcelona, 
carried out by Barcelona City Council
to find out what children think.
This programme also features the collaboration of 
the Barcelona Education Consortium 
and a University of Girona research team called ERIDIQV.
The Children's Agenda in Easy-to-Read format
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Contents
▪ What is the Children's Agenda, and what is it for?
▪ How are Barcelona's children?
▪ What are children asking for to improve their wellbeing?
1. Take care of our family life.
2. Stop bullying.
3. Don't allow any kind of violence against children.
4. More emotional help, and less pressure to be a certain way.
5. More help to use digital devices safely.
6. More free time to play and do what we enjoy.
7. A city where we can play and do things outdoors.
8. Listen to our opinions and involve us in decisions that affect us.
9. Make sure everyone has what they need. We should buy less and share more.
10. Make sure we can have fun at school, in addition to learning.
11. Look after the planet and make sure there's equality for everyone. 
What is the Children's Agenda? 
And what is it for? 
The Children's Agenda sets out the proposals
made by Barcelona's children
to improve their wellbeing. 
To make this document,
5,000 children aged 8 to 11 were asked:
“How are you, and what can we do to make you feel better?”
The Children's Agenda is for children
to explain their proposals
to some of the city's adults,
such as families, teachers and politicians.
Why is it important for us to listen to children? 
Children have the right for adults to 
listen and pay attention to them.
This is why Barcelona City Council
has asked the Barcelona Institute of Childhood and Adolescence
to carry out the programme “The Children Have Their Say”.
Thanks to this programme,
many children have been asked 
what makes them feel good and what makes them feel bad. 
Their proposals will be used 
to improve their wellbeing.
How are Barcelona's children?
All the children in Barcelona should be satisfied with their lives,
but that's not the case.
More children were
Only a little over half of these children completely satisfied in 2017
(before the pandemic). 
are satisfied with their lives
However, in 2021
the figures have got worse, 
and more children 
are not completely satisfied.
Very few report being Some report Only a little over half
unsatisfied or only being fairly – but are completely 
slightly satisfied. not completely – satisfied.
satisfied. 
Are all children equally satisfied with their lives? 
• Boys are more satisfied than girls. 
• Younger children are more satisfied than older children.
• In the case of those who are least satisfied,
it is for one of these reasons:
o living in poorer neighbourhoods
o being of foreign origin
o having some kind of disability
o having two homes,
usually because their parents are separated.
What makes children feel good? 
The three most Feeling safe 
important at home, at 
Being satisfied Being satisfied 
aspects school 
with their family with their body
in general and in their 
neighbourhood
The three most 
important Having fun with Having fun with Doing things 
outdoors
aspects their family their friends
in their daily lives
What are the things that boys and girls value worst and best?
The 3 things they value the worst are:
• Having little free time
• Their classmates
• Not being listened to by adults
The 3 things they value the best are:
• The things they have
• Health
• Their family life 
What do children propose to improve their wellbeing? 
The children's proposals are addressed to:
The 
wellbeing 
Barcelona Their Society of children 
Schools Families Children The media
City Council neighbours in general is 
everyone's 
business! 
What are children asking for to improve their 
wellbeing?
1. Take care of our family life.
2. Stop bullying.
3. Don't allow any kind of violence against children.
4. More emotional help, and less pressure to be a certain way.
5. More help to use digital devices safely.
6. More free time to play and do what we enjoy.
7. A city where we can play and do things outdoors.
8. Listen to our opinions and involve us in decisions that affect us.
9. Make sure everyone has what they need. We should buy less and share more.
10. Do things at school in addition to learning.
11. Look after the planet and make sure there's equality for everyone.
1. Take care of our family life
Spending time with their family 
while having fun
is the most important thing for children. 
This means growing up feeling that they are 
cared for,
loved and understood.
Almost 2 out of 10 children
are not completely satisfied
with their family life
What do we want? 
1. A good family life Adrià is a 9-year-old boy who 
lives in Nou Barris. 
What are we proposing? 
1. Take care of our families so they can provide He thinks that families look 
a space for us to love and respect each other after their children and try to 
2. Make it possible for our families make them happy.
to spend more time with us
3. More spaces and opportunities to have fun with 
our families 
2. Stop bullying
Bullying 
is one of the main concerns for children. 
This violence 
makes them unhappy and afraid.
This is why they are asking everyone, 
particularly families and schools, 
end this violence.
Almost half of children are not 
completely happy with their 
classmates
What do we want? 
2. An end to bullying Ayaan is a 10-year-old girl who 
lives in the Eixample. 
What are we proposing? 
She says it is hard for her when 
4. Greater involvement by everyone, people insult her and leave her 
and talking about bullying in order to prevent it out at school.
5. Don't allow bullying: greater control,
clear rules and enforcement 
6. Help both bullied children and their bullies
3. Don't allow any kind of violence
against children
In order to be well, children need to feel safe.
To achieve this, they need adults
to treat them well at home, at school and in their 
neighbourhood,
and to be able to do things in the city
feeling safe and with increasing independence.
3 out of 10 children do not feel 
completely safe
What do we want? Arlet is an 11-year-old girl who 
lives in Nou Barris.
3. For there to be no violence against children
She says that, if she feels she's in 
What are we proposing? danger, she goes into a shop for 
7. Adults that treat us well, safety.
without violence 
Wen is an 11-year-old girl who lives in 
8. A city where we can feel safe 
Nou Barris.
She says that, as we get older, we 
become more aware of bad things.
4. More emotional help, and less 
pressure to be a certain way
Children want emotional help
to feel less alone and improve their self-esteem.
They also want freedom to dress however they want
regardless of their body or whether they are male or female.
Almost 3 out of 10 children don't 
fully like themselves
What do we want? 
4. More emotional help, and less pressure to be a 
certain way Berta is a 10-year-old girl who 
What are we proposing? lives in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi.
9. Look after our health She wants adults to talk more 
and offer us psychological help when we need it about how children are doing 
10. Talk more often about how we're feeling, instead of worrying so much about 
school grades. 
to help us feel better and know we're not alone 
11.  More self-esteem and less pressure
about what our body or image should be like
5. More help to use 
digital devices safely 
Children enjoy using digital devices,
but they also know they come with risks.
So they're asking adults
to help them use them safely
and provide fun alternatives to screens.
Almost 4 out of 10 children struggle to 
tear themselves away from the 
internet
What do we want? 
5. More help to use digital devices safely 
Shuang is a 9-year-old girl who 
What are we proposing? lives in Sant Martí.
12. Help us use digital devices properly
She says that, when children are 
13. Keep an eye on what we're watching bored, they play a lot with digital 
to make sure it is age-appropriate devices and get addicted.
12. Provide fun alternatives to screens
6. More free time to play and 
do what we enjoy
Children want more free time and freedom
to decide how they spend their time.
They also want to have a better time at school,
for school to be a place for fun.
Half of children feel that they don't 
have enough free time
What do we want? 
Marc is 11 years old and lives in Les Corts.
6. More free time to play
and do what we enjoy He says that school should be more fun so 
that children feel they have enough free 
time.
What are we proposing? 
15. More free time Joana is 9 years old and lives in Sant Martí.
16. The ability to decide what we do
She says that children sometimes do 
with our free time extracurricular activities they don't enjoy.
7. A city where we can play 
and do things outdoors
Children like to play and have fun outdoors.
This is why the city and its neighbourhoods must have spaces
that are suitable for children of all ages,
not just for very young ones. 
They want a green and clean city where they can play
and get around on their own.
Half of children are not completely 
satisfied with the outdoor spaces in their 
city and neighbourhood
What do we want? 
Lila is an 11-year-old girl who lives in 
7. A city where we can play and do things outdoors the Eixample.
What are we proposing? She would like the city to be greener.
17. More nature, better spaces to have fun,
and a neighbourhood with streets where it’s              Vera is an 11-year-old girl 
safe to be on our own who lives in Ciutat Vella.
17. Spaces and ideas to do things She wants more parks for 
with other children and other people in the neighbourhood older children, because most 
of them are for very young 
18. Treat us with kindness and look after the neighbourhood
children.
8. Listen to our opinions
and involve us in decisions 
that affect us
Children want adults 
to listen to their opinions 
before making decisions
within their family, at school, in their neighbourhood and in 
the city.
4 out of 10 children think that adults don't 
listen to them properly 
What do we want? 
8. For adults to listen to our opinions and
involve us in decisions that affect us
Ranjit is 9 years old and lives in Sants-
Montjuic.
What are we proposing? 
20. Trust us more and don't overprotect us He says that adults often put things in 
neighbourhoods without asking children 
to let us do things on our own what they think.
21. To be better understood by adults.
22. Ask for our opinion
before making a decision on something that is important to us
9. Make sure everyone has what they 
need. We should buy less and share 
more
Children think that all children
should be able to eat healthy,
live in a home that is well kept
and have everything they need for school.
This is why they are asking the City Council 
to help families in need 
and are proposing that we buy fewer things
and share what we have.
2 out of 10 children are not completely 
satisfied with the things they have
What do we want? 
9. To make sure everyone has what they need.
We should buy less and share more Lucía is 11 years old and lives in Gràcia.
She says there some children don't have 
What are we proposing? enough money and they compare 
23. Everyone should have what they need to live themselves to those who do.
24. All children should have what we need
for school and to enjoy ourselves
23. Think about whether we really need something before buying it,
and find a new use for things that we're no longer using 
10. Make sure we can have fun at 
school, 
in addition to learning
For children, school is not just a place for learning.
It is also a place to make friends and have fun.
This is why they are asking for more resources at schools
to improve how they learn
and make sure that all children
feel comfortable at school.
3 out of 10 children are not completely 
happy with their school life
What do we want? 
10. To have fun at school, 
in addition to learning Ayize is an 11-year-old boy who lives 
in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi.
What are we proposing? 
He says that, as school subjects 
26. Take good care of schools, because they are change, they get more boring every 
like a home for all children year.
27. Improve teaching methods
so that all children can enjoy learning
26. All children should be able to feel comfortable at school
and school should be a place for making friends
11. Look after the planet and make 
sure there's equality for everyone
Children want a better future for everyone.
We must therefore look after the planet and not pollute.
They also want no violence,
and for there to be equality between all people. 
Almost 7 out of 10 children are 
worried about climate change and 
social injustice
What do we want? 
Joel is a 10-year-old boy who lives in 
11. To look after the planet and make sure Horta-Guinardó.
there's equality for everyone
For him, the most concerning 
What are we proposing? problem is climate change.
29. A greener and healthier world.
Ming is an 11-year-old boy who lives 
Look after the climate and animals in Sants-Montjuic.
30. No discrimination
He wants there to be no racism or 
and for there to be greater equality sexism in Barcelona.
between people
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More information about the programme "The Children Have 
Their Say": 
• barcelona.cat/parlen-nens-nenes
• https://institutinfancia.cat/en/projectes/parlen-2ed/ 
More information about the Children's Agenda: 
• https://institutinfancia.cat/en/media/video-agenda-2ed/