The aim of this online international seminar is to examine findings regarding the extent to which the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) has been enforced and applied, as well as the framework of child protection policies, in the European Union, Spain and Italy.

 

9.30 a.m. Introduction, Montserrat Gas Aixendri

 

9.40 a.m. “Child protection policies in Catalonia: present and future challenges”, Dr Mª Jesus Larios Paterna, assistant to the Ombudsperson of Catalonia 

 

10 a.m. “Children’s rights mainstreaming in Europe”, Dr. Aida Kisunaite, research fellow, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova

 

10.15 a.m. “Child protection policies in Spain and Catalonia”, Marc Grau Grau, researcher for the Childcare and Family Policies Chair at UIC Barcelona

 

10.30 a.m. “Regulatory impact analysis as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of social policy”, Dr Dolors Canals Ametller, full professor of Administrative Law at the University of Girona

 

10.45 a.m. “Regulatory impact of social care in Catalonia: childhood and youth”, Paula Ortí Ferrer, head of the area for Regulatory Improvements at the Government of Catalonia

 

11 a.m.  Questions to the speakers

 

11.30 a.m. End of seminar

 

*Please note presentations will be given in either Catalan, Spanish or English.