Media Release: Empowering professionals to secure the rights of children in care: Guide launched by the Council of Europe and SOS Children’s Villages
4 April 2014
The guide – Securing Children’s Rights: A Guide for Professionals Working in Alternative Care – promotes a child rights-based approach to social care practice and aims to help professionals in the field of alternative care understand and support the rights of the children and young people with whom they work. The Guide incorporates and promotes the use of existing instruments, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, and the booklet Discover your Rights! It was developed by a team of experts, who, over the course of country consultations in Albania, Croatia and Estonia, heard real experiences and thoughts of social workers, young people with care experience, care workers, and educators, as well as representatives of NGOs, academia, government, and international agencies. Altogether, over 80 stakeholders and 25 contributors helped shape the booklet….