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ENOC
Bruselles
2002 1.
General Update and activities, relation to Government, Parliament, NGO's and
children themselves. The
Deputy for children activities during this year has been involved in a large
number and variety of issues. Among them, we want to point out: ·
Comments
on bills related to children's rights: - care system for street immigrant boys stating his disagreement with respect to it, considering it didn't mean a tool for their protection but for their stigmation. -
access to schools, -
coming to force of the Penal Juvenile Act ·
Attendance
to Children County Council's. ·
Visits of
all the educational centres for convicted juvenile, visits to 20 special
resources to favour and easy the education of teenagers with problems, visit to
some Child Care Teams, visit to the mother and children area in penitenciary
centres, ·
Information
and training activities at request of children residential equipments, schools,
departments and councils. ·
Participation
in foster parents group work in a suburb in BCN. ·
The usual
dealing of individual complaintsm and office actions ·
Visits to
Marrocco in order to: know the situation of the minors without familiy there,
stablish a link for communication and information about individual minors, etc. 2.
Updated list of positive changes for children (law, policy, practice) in which
the office was actively involved and which have unlikely to happen without the
office. ·
Law
changes: priorities in access of
pupils to the chosen school, … ·
Better
conditions in the emergency centres for immigrant minors no acompanied:
eductional activities, day care for week-ends. ·
A
step forward inclusive education and equal opportunities of disabled children 3.
Any specific difficulties or obstacles the offic encountered in carrying out its
mandate. ·
Answer
repports from the government are undue late, thus affecting the Deputy's
resolutions and the results of his task. This relates specially to formal
educational issues, and child care in residential equipments. ·
A more
friendly acceptation of the ombudsman mandate ·
A better
knowledge and access for children |
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Last edited by Barneombudet November 11, 2002 |