ENYA 2024 “Let’s Talk Young, Let’s Talk About Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Children in Alternative Care”

ENYA "Let's Talk Young, Let’s Talk about Protecting and Promoting Children’s Rights " project aims to provide a forum for the participation of Young People thus giving them a voice on the protection and promotion of the rights of children in alternative care. The Project’s values and goals are to promote child participation and to ensure the right to be heard (Article 12, UNCRC).

Coordination:

ENYA 2024 project was coordinated by Andrej Peter, Office of the Commissioner for Children, Slovakia, supported by the ENOC Secretariat.

Participants:

The 15 participating teams of young people come from Andalusia/Spain, Armenia, Basque country/Spain, Catalonia/Spain, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Northern Ireland/UK, Ukraine, and Wales/UK.

Activities:

Between February and June 2024, the Young Advisors worked with their peers at the national level on a set of 5 rights-based recommendations on the protection and promotion of the rights of children in alternative care.

After learning and working on the topic at the national level, two Young Advisors per participating institution attended the ENYA Forum in Bratislava, on 1-2 July 2024. There, Young People agreed on a set of recommendations that were compiled with the aim of being incorporated into the ENOC Policy Position Statement. The recommendations were later presented at the ENOC Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland, on 18-19 September 2024.

Find the ENOC Policy Position Statement on the Promotion and the Protection of the Rights of Children in Alternative Care here.