The Social Security Institute's CASA 2025 report counts 6,120 children and young people in care, 3.6 percent fewer than in 2024. Foster families took 459 of them, up 27 percent, but 81 percent were in residential homes.
How Halloween, trick-or-treating, and the Pão-por-Deus custom of 1 November work in Portugal, with safety tips, local events, and useful words.
Portugal's consumer authority has issued a recall notice for the Hamax Buddy child bike seat sold by Decathlon from January 2022 to August 2026. A fabric label on the harness strap can come loose. Which seats are affected and what to do.
Children aged 7, 10 and 13 will get no cheque-dentista this school year, the DGS has told health units, to avoid overlap with the new oral health programme that starts on 1 January 2027. What changes, who still gets vouchers, and what parents can do.
EduQA released the 2026 ModA results to schools and families on 20 October. National averages rose in maths and written Portuguese but fell in reading, and just 738 of the 1,477 Year 4 pupils entered for the B1 test in Portuguese as a non-native language sat it.
The GNR has recorded 1,657 crimes in the school environment this year, 72 linked to bullying and six to cyberbullying. Bullying is not a crime in its own right in Portugal. Here is what the GNR and the Ministry of Education tell parents to do.
The DGS says more than 31,000 children were protected against RSV, the main cause of bronchiolitis, in a month. Every baby born since 1 April 2026 now qualifies for free; the health-centre catch-up runs to 30 October.
