Looking back

• Ellen Key (1849-1926) 1910 ”Barnabalk”

• Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) 1919 ”A Magna Charta Liberalis”

• Eglantyne Jebb (1876-1928) 1924 ”The Geneva declaration” 5 principles The League of Nations

1924 – The Geneva declaration, 5 principles

1948 – 7 principles

1959 – UN Declaration on the rights of the Child, 10 principles

1979 – A Polish initiative for a Convention

1989 – The UN CRC is adopted by the UN General Assembly

1990 – Sweden ratifies the CRC

What is a child?

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Fig. 1.1

The Child

Teachers

The Child

The Social Services

Parents

Fig. 1.3

The Political Dimension International national regional local

The Legal DimensionShows the status of the CRC in national legislation

The Pedagogical DimensionShows how we practice the CRC, methods

The Ethical DimensionShows how the society sees the child as a citizen

Different kinds of rights

Civil and political rights

Economic, social and cultural rights

Economic, social and cultural rights

The right to health and health services and rehabilitation

(articel 24 och 39)

The right to education(articel 28 och 29)

The right to leisure, play and culture(articel 31)

The right to protection from harmful work(articel 32)

Civil and political rights

• The right to freedom of expression, freedom of thought, concience and religion (articel 12,13,14 och 15)

• The right to protection from torture (articel 37)

• The right to registration at birth, the right to a name (articel 7)

• The right to an identity (articel 8)

The Convention on the Rights of the

The General Principles

Articel 2 Articel 3 Articel 6 Articel 12

Articel 2

•Children shall be protected from all kinds of discrimination.

• The right to equal opportunities

•Non-discrimination

Artikel 3.1

All children and all descisions

Child impact analyses

General guidance

The best interests of the child

Artikel 6• The right to life and survival, early marriage, death penalty, armed conflict, homicide and other violonce to children, infanticide, honour killings, suicide, traffic accidents

• The right to development, optimal conditions for childhood, right now

Artikel 12Democrathy with children

A political right

All descisions concerning children

The Convention demands us to• 2 – Collect data and make surveys

• 3 – Implement Child impact assessments

• 4 – Prioritize Children

• 6 – Cooperate

• 12 – Make Children Participate

• 42 – Inform and create knowledge

Data collection

• Equality

• Be aware of changes

Child impact assessment• National law

• The CRC

• Important Research

• The practice

• Proven Experience

• Childen´s views

Children should be prioritized

• Budget allocation

• Conflicts of interests

• Long term decisions

Holistic view• Cooperation

• Knowledge about other professions

• A personal will to cooperation

• Realize the benefits for children and the difficulties for adults

Children´s participation

• Why do we do this,what is the purpose

• Which children• What questions • How can children express

themselves• How do we use the results• How do we show children

respect

Information and knowledge• To be able to exersice the rights all

children must know about them

• To be able to realize the rights among children adults must know about the rights and the meaning of the rights in every day

work

Collecting data

Participation

Information

Cooperation

Prioritize children

The best interests of the child

You

Understand

Abel

Want to

The Good Soil

• The highest level must decide

• All political parties must support

• All levels of the organization must support

• Co-ordination close to decision makers

• A working group with mandate

• Activities at all levels• Follow-up• Evaluate

CRC

Affordance

”This is what we already do”

”There is no need for this issue”

”This has no bearing on us”