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TAMPERETAMPERE

Mia Lumio Children’s Ombudsman

City of Tampere

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WE HAVE A VISION WE HAVE A VISION TO SHARETO SHARE

"Tampere is a city for children and young people,

where childhood and adolescence are recognised

and appreciated as being significant phases in a

person's life.

In all its functions, the city respects

the rights of children and young people to have

access to versatile, high-quality services, to participate

and to have a say as well as their rights to access to

every form of well-being and protection.”

THE CHILD POLICY PROGRAMME OF THE CITY OF TAMPERE

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A FORERUNNER IN A FORERUNNER IN CHILD AND YOUTH POLICY IN CHILD AND YOUTH POLICY IN

FINLANDFINLAND• A specific child and youth policy programme for promoting the

well-being of children, young people and families since 1999 (revised in 2007)

• The post of Finland´s first municipal Children´s Ombudsman was founded in 2003

– provides information and monitors the development of well-being of children and young people

– creates opportunities for children and young people to communicate their opinions and needs

– co-ordinates child and youth work– promotes co-operation between all child and young people instances

• The Children’s Parliament and the Open Youth Forum were made permanent in 2004

• A Deputy Mayor to Support Growth of Children and Youth 2007

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ACTIVEACTIVE

• 16.-22.11.200916.-22.11.2009The Week for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

• 20082008Unicef City of Finland

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The XIIIth ISPCAN The XIIIth ISPCAN EUROPEAN REGIONAL EUROPEAN REGIONAL

CONFERENCECONFERENCE• ISPCAN = International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse

and Neglect• www.ispcan.org• An international community of professionals working to

prevent child abuse and neglect worldwide• founded 1977

• Conference will take place in Tampere, Finland in August 2011

• The main theme of the conference is 'Challenging Social Responsibilities for Child Abuse and Neglect’ and the subthemes are– The state, the family, the communities: whose rights, whose

responsibilities?– Children as citizens and clients in different settings – Focusing on trauma and therapeutical perspectives

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CONFERENCE AS A FORUM FOR

THE CFC CHILDREN AND YOUTH ?

• Participating children and youth as professionals• A forum for children and youth of Cities for

Children network to discuss for example bullying in any form

• HOW TO INVOLVE CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN THE DISCUSSION ?

• WHAT ARE THE METHODS OF PARTICIPATION ?• HOW ABOUT

– via local / national children and youth parliaments?– participating the conference itself ?– prediscussion via internet ?

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LET´S NETWORKLET´S NETWORK

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•one of the best practices in tackling health inequalities in Europe (EuroHealthNet, 2006)• promotes the realisation of children´s rights,• develops multiprofessional cooperation in interventions in child abuse cases• the target group are children under school age, their families and professionalsNETWORKNETWORK• Local workers in child protection servics, children´s day care services, family work and child welfare clinics, local parish of the church, police, prosecutor and courtOUTCOMESOUTCOMES• HANDBOOK: the action model for different professionals• WORRY SCREENING - EDUCATION: on various methods of early observation and support•OUR KIDS – PUBLICATION: An action model to promote and support interaction between a child and his/her parents, a Supervisor´s Guide and a book ”My Story” for children• HAND IN HAND – SECURITY FOR CHILDREN -HANDBOOK: for people working with abused children•GROUPS: Father, Baby, Arm-in-Arm and Tot groups

SAFE LIFE FOR SAFE LIFE FOR CHILDREN CHILDREN

– BEST PRACTICE– BEST PRACTICE

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Tampere - Action ModelTampere - Action Modelin child abuse casesin child abuse cases

First contact Social worker Police Prosecutor The CourtUniversity hospital

Consultation/Recieving the C.A.

announcement

Child abuse is possible

Child protection acts

ClearingAnnouncement of crime/

consultation

Criminal investigation

Investigation with

positiveresults

Consideration of the charge

Accusation/Charge Lawsuit

The verdict

Finding the defendent

guilty

Check-up and treatment

Becoming worried about the

child

Consultation/child abuse

announcement

Psychiatricinvestigation of the child

Becoming worried

about the child in healthcare

units

Recommendation for treatment

The statement

Suspicion of child abuse

Multiprofessional team

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Finnish Host Finnish Host OrganisationsOrganisations• University of Tampere

• Department of Nursing Scince- Concerned with caring for the health of the individual and the family and in everyday life with routine coping

• Department of Social Policy and Social Work- Concerned with face-to-face interaction in social work, child protection and family, and issues of substance abuse and marginalisation

• Nordic Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NASPCAN)- Established in in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1998- Members from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland and Iceland- The goal is to afford members the opportunity to share experiences, update knowledge as well as stimulate the exchange of knowledge

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Conference Conference OrganisationOrganisation

• The conference will be organised by the above-mentioned host organisations

• The Local Organising Committee (LOC) will be formed of Finnish academics, policy makers and practitioners representing organisations in the field

• The Local Scientific Committee (LSC) will be formed of the representatives of main research and professional organisations involved in child abuse and neglect prevention in Finland and the Nordic countries

All arrangements will be accomplished in close co-operation with ISPCAN Head Office

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TAMPERE IN BRIEFTAMPERE IN BRIEF• In 1779 Tampere received its city rights

• The city is located between two lakes

• Easily reached by car, bus, train and aeroplane

• Inhabitants in Tampere nearly 210 000, in Tampere region 342 000

• The third biggest city in Finland

• The biggest inland city in the Nordic countries

• Centre of education and information society

• The City of Tampere has the best image comparing the largest cities in Finland (2004)

• The most attractive city among Finns who plan on moving (2004)

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CHILDREN AND YOUTHCHILDREN AND YOUTHAS PART OF DEMOCRACYAS PART OF DEMOCRACY

Mia Lumio Children’s Ombudsman

City of Tampere

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Why Youth Participation?

• Children and young people are experts • Worry about participation of young people because of

low voting rate• Young people are far from politics, they are not

interested about it• Politicians think participation of children and young

people is important• Appreciation – respect every child and youngster as a

person• Democracy of citizens – Youth participation is part of it• Society is for everyone – it’s common!

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Levels of Participation

Schools/Students’ unions

Youth houses/ houses’

committees

Other Youths’ Groups to Act

UNIT

Cooperative groups of areas/forumsAREA

CITY

REGION

The Children’s ParliamentThe Youth Forum

The Forum for Young People’s Ideas in the Tampere Region & Region’s municipalities’ representatives of

Youths’ opinion-maker groups

Participating in Committees and

Boards

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Students’ unions

• already exist in secondary schools, upper secondary schools and vocational schools

• action of students’ union in upper secondary schools is ordained in a law

• all pupils of the school are members of students’ union• students’ union has a board and might have a

representative body

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Goals for Boardmembers of Students’ Union

• 1st and 2nd grades: member…– knows the students’ union and its’ board– learns to participate in to the meetings– knows his/her own task as a member of the board

• 3rd and 4th grades: member…– represents his/her own class in the meetings

regularly– uses opportunities to speak actively– asks class’s opinion about things that are

discussed and speaks on behalf of his/her class– takes responsibility for common things– participates to the planning of action

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• 5th and 6th grades: member…

– can defend and gives reasons for own class’s opinion – knows his own and class’s possibilities to influence– knows how decisions are made in school– participates to affairs in order to advance them– participates actively and can evaluate his/her own action and

also board’s action

• 7th, 8th and 9th grades: member…– discusses about his/her class’s opinion and advances it

by own action in board meetings – knows manners how the decisions are made in his/her

school– acts initiatively and brings things to the debate

enterprisingly– understands that evaluation has meaning in progress

of students’ board’s action

Goals for Boardmembers of Students’ Union

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Expansion of the Students’ Unions’

activity to Every School• a part of participation model in the City of Tampere• a students’ union and its’ board to every school

(expanding to schools of 1-6 grades) in last year• reimbursements to teachers who guide students’ boards

(local contract)• education for teachers, youth workers and students’

boards’ members regularly (twice a year)

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The Children’s Parliament

• started in the 2001 by The LOVE Project – from the beginning of the 2004 a part of Youths’ Services in the City of Tampere

• to give an opportunity to participate and to influence on children’s own school, environment and city

• a place where children can make suggestions• representatives from comprehensive school (4-6

grades)• two meetings in a council hall in a year• a board and three active committees

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The Youth Forum

• influences on youths’ living and being happy• follows the decisionmaking concerning youths’ things• makes suggestions • representatives from schools (7th- former and older)• meetings in the council hall twice a year• a board and four committees

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Central administration co-operation

• Two members of The Forum for Young People are also members of three Committees and three Boards– Committee of Child and Youth Services– Committee of Services Promoting Culture and Quality of Life– Committee of Expertise and Economic Development– Board of Daycare and Basic Education– Board of Upper Secondary Education– Board of Cultural Services

• Twice a year at the committee of Child and Youth Services– News of the Children´s Parliament– News of the Forum for Young People

• Each local political party has a contact persons for the Children´s Parliament and the Forum for Young People

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