The Children’s Society developed a new website aimed at helping professionals working with disabled children and young people. The Disability Toolkit website, provides essentials resources, information and support needed by professionals supporting disabled children and young people in their decision-making and participation activities. The website is interactive and its content is constantly updated.

The website includes:

On the 20th of December 2007 supervision with an international expert, Jolanta Zmarzlik, took place in Kiev. During the meeting Ms. Zmarzlik told the participants about the process of changing Polish legislation concerning interrogation of minors and about creating child friendly interviewing rooms in Poland. Afterwards the participants had the opportunity to discuss with Ms.

Between 17^th and 21^st of November all the coordinators of the „Childhood without Abuse” project took part in the XIth ISPCAN European Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Lisbon. Besides participating in all the sessions of the conference, there was a special Coordinators’ Meeting organized before the main event.

 

The First Children’s Embassy in the World-Megjashi continues with the last year’s campaign for more love and attention towards the children, but now with the motto “Did you tell you child how much you love him/her?”.

 

On the 10th of October 2007 Nobody’s Children Foundation together with Polish Ministry of Justice officially launched the second edition of the campaign “Child – Witness with Special Needs”.

 

 

 

For the 4^th time the European Network Child Friendly Cities wants to invite everyone to participate in the Child in the City Conference which will be held at 3,4 and 5 November 2008 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop the Traffik

On YouTube one can find a short movie concerning the complex issues of migration mixed with the risks of trafficking of children and young women in Moldova. The tone of the movie is serious and sensitive, addressing social and economic roots causes.

On the 8^th and 9^th of October 2007 there was a training for judges from local and general courts conducted in Kiev. The title of the training was „The role of judicial system in improving children’s protection system in Ukraine”.

ISPCAN reminds about the upcoming World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse on 19 November 2007. Everyone is encouraged to take part in this important day.