1. Looking back Ellen Key (1849-1926) 1910 ”Barnabalk”
Janusz Korczak ( ) 1919 ”A Magna Charta Liberalis”
Eglantyne Jebb ( ) 1924 ”The Geneva declaration” 5 principles The League of Nations

2. 1924 – The Geneva declaration, 5 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

3. What is a child?

4. S O S S
Fig. 1.1

5. Teachers
Parents
The Child
The Child
The Social Services
Fig. 1.3

7. The Political Dimension
International
national
regional
local
The Legal Dimension
Shows the status of the CRC in national legislation
The Pedagogical Dimension
Shows how we practice the CRC, methods
The Ethical Dimension
Shows how the society sees the child as a citizen

8. Different kinds of rights
Civil and political rights
Economic, social and cultural rights 8

9. 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) 9

10. 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) 10

11. The General Principles
The Convention on the Rights of the
Articel 2
Articel 3
Articel 6
Articel 12 11

12. Articel 2 Non-discrimination
Children shall be protected from all kinds of discrimination.
The right to equal opportunities 12

13. Artikel 3.1 The best interests of the child
All children and all descisions
Child impact analyses
General guidance 13

14. 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 14

15. Artikel 12 Democrathy with children A political right
All descisions concerning children 15

16. 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

17. Data collection
Equality
Be aware of changes

18. Child impact assessment
National law
The CRC
Important Research
The practice
Proven Experience
Childen´s views
I utredningsdirektiven skall ingå att alla remissinstanser prövar barnets bästa.
Om alla förvaltningar/nämnder har gjort prövningar sammanställs de inför beslut.
Man kan relatera effektkedjor till prövningen av barnets bästa. 18

19. Children should be prioritized
Budget allocation
Conflicts of interests
Long term decisions

20. Holistic view Cooperation Knowledge about other professions
A personal will to cooperation
Realize the benefits for children and the difficulties for adults

21. 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

23. 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

24. 2 3 6 12 4 42 44.6 The Operation Articles concerning my own work
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Operation
Articles concerning my own work

25. Collecting data
The best interests
of the child
Information
You
Prioritize
children
Participation
Cooperation

26. Understand Abel Want to

27. 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

28. CRC Affordance ”This has no bearing ”There is no need on us”
for this issue”
”This is what we already do”