Catalonia Update 2002
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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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