On 31 January 2024, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) published a new study entitled Mapping Child Protection Systems in the EU – Update 2023. This study is the updated version of an earlier one, published in 2015, on the mapping of the different national protection systems of children in the Member States of the European Union.
The study departs from the general framework of fundamental rights of children in Europe, composed by the Charter of Fundamental of the EU, the European Convention of Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of Childs as well as children rights embedded into the national constitutions. It is composed of seven chapters; the first one on the mapping of the child protection systems, the second on the national legislative and regulatory framework; the third on the national authorities responsible for child protection, the fourth on human and financial resources, focusing on qualification and training of personnel, the fifth on the identification and reporting procedures for children in need of protection and procedures for placing children, the sixth on accountability and monitoring systems, and the last one on children in migration.
The last Chapter, in particular, states that most Member States have amended their national legislation regarding children in the context of migration since 2014. Several Member States have introduced changes to legislation related to legal representation and guardianship, according to FRA’s 2022 guardianship research, to unaccompanied minors. It underlines that often child protection and migration legislation are not aligned. The report also devotes particular attention to the issue of Ukrainian children.
The study can be downloaded here
Photo credits: Fundamental Rights Agency
This blog has been authored by members of the FAMIMOVE Project. The team of the Blog would like to acknowledge Prof. Fabienne Jault-Seseke for sharing the study.
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