ChildONEurope is made up of:

• an Assembly
• a Secretariat

The Assembly of Network Members (Assembly) is composed of the institutions nominated by the EU Member States to be part of the Network. It gives directions to the Secretariat, approves the agenda of activities, manages the budget and indicates the means of collaboration between the Member States of the Network.
In the Assembly of Network Members the other EU States that are not part of the Network are admitted in the capacity of observers .
Besides the Assemblies of Network Members there will be other instances devoted to discuss specific topics that will be enlarged to the most important international organizations ( IGOs ), non governmental organizations ( NGOs ) or individual experts working on childhood related matters agreed upon by the Members according to the subject dealt.

The Secretariat of the Network (Secretariat) has a role enabling it to make proposals and it performs the following functions:

a. Technical, logistic and documentary support

• organising of the Network Assemblies and events
• constructing and managing a common web page
• promoting comparative studies, research and best practices

b.Communication

• exchanging of documents on laws, policies, programmes, statistics, events and other information between the Network Members
• promoting co-operation between the Network Members and the Network Observers
•  promoting co-operation with other IGOs and NGOs

c. Development phase

• promoting a common system of documentation in the legal, statistical and bibliographical spheres
• drafting of summary or comparative documents on the Network Members request with the support of the Biblioteca Innocenti Library
• publishing the results of studies, research and events

The Secretariat's functions have been assigned to the Italian National Childhood and Adolescence Documentation and Analysis Centre whose activities are managed by the Istituto degli Innocenti of Florence in agreement with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Department of Family Policies and with the Ministry of Social Solidarity.