Closing a Protection Gap 2.0 | | Movimento Globale per i Diritti dell’Infanzia

Summary

With the project ‘Closing a protection gap for separated children in Europe’ financed by the DAPHNE III programme of the European Commission, issues regarding separated children have been brouhght into focus such as the quality of guardianship. A research has been carried out and high quality Core Standards for guardians of separated children in Europe have been developed based on the participation of separated children and a focus on the rights of the children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Thanks to the publication of the Core Standards, a first step has been taken to close the protection gap for separated children in Europe, the next important steps to further close the protection gap are to work with the Core Standards in practice fostering their implementation and to take the work further on towards improved policy and legislative initiatives at national and European level providing the strongly needed framework for responsibilities of guardianship systems in order for all separated children in Europe to get the protection they are entitled to.

In order to enlarge the scope, raise the awareness and guarantee the sustainability of the project, three new project partners are included in this follow up project and nine other European countries will be involved.