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The Council for Children and Adolescents of the Valencian Community holds a revitalization session in Dénia

May 16 from 2022 - 14: 23

The Council for Childhood and Adolescence of the Valencian Community held a dynamization session in Dénia on Saturday with the aim of continuing its work on knowledge, group cohesion and deepening its operation.

The opening of the meeting was attended by the mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, and the General Director of Children and Adolescents, Rosa Molero, who highlighted the importance of this body, which provides the Generalitat with an instrument so that the perspective of childhood "continues to be in all the policies promoted by the Consell and that its weight is increasing and with a more transversal character”.

"From the Ministry of Equality we are aware of how necessary it is to have the opinion of children and adolescents, and thus make effective their right to be heard collectively in matters that concern them, because nothing can be built without their protagonists”, affirmed the general director.

In this sense, Molero insisted on the importance of this Consell and on "the step involved in seeing children and adolescents not as subjects of protection, but as subjects of rights, as set out in the Law on Rights and guarantees for children and adolescents in the Valencian Community, which was approved in 2018”.

This is the third revitalization session held by the Valencian Community Council for Children and Adolescents since the new directors took office in March 2022, after the meetings held in Bellreguard, on April 2, with the that the Consell was officially constituted; and in Valencia, on April 21, during which the people who make up this body were able to learn first-hand about the main Valencian institutions.

The objective of these dynamization sessions is for the new councilors of the Council for Children and Adolescents of the Valencian Community to deepen their knowledge of the rights of children and adolescents, how to defend them and before which institutions to do so, with the aim that they can carry out their task.

Specifically, the session held in Dénia featured the intervention of Rodrigo Hernández, representing Save the Children, who made a presentation on vulnerable groups in the field of childhood. Likewise, Marlene Perkins, on behalf of Unicef, spoke about the importance of representativeness as a tool for defending the rights of children and adolescents.

Throughout the day, the councilors were able to work on the cohesion of the group with the revitalization team of the Vice Presidency and the Department of Equality and Inclusive Policies and laid the foundations to start the path of the future internal operating regulations of the Consell that must be prepared by the counselors.

Structure and functions

The Council for Children and Adolescents of the Valencian Community as a child representation body is made up of 24 counselors (10 are up to 12 years old and 14 up to 18 years old) representatives of the Council for Children and Adolescents of the Protection System, of the Consell Valencià of the Joventut, the School Council of the Valencian Community and the Local Councils for Children and Adolescents.

It is currently made up of 16 counselors: three girls and three boys up to 12 years old and six adolescents up to 18 years old, representing the local children's councils; two boys, girls or adolescents up to 18 years old, representing the Consell Valencià de la Joventut and two boys, girls or adolescents up to 18 years old from the School Council of the Valencian Community.

They will be joined by 8 more members throughout the year, specifically two girls and two boys up to 12 years old and four adolescents up to 18 years old, representing the Child and Adolescent Council of the Protection System.

Among the functions of the Consell are those of proposing to the Generalitat initiatives to promote their rights, participate in the preparation, evaluation and monitoring of the Valencian Strategy for Children and Adolescents, convey their concerns, give an opinion on any matter or social reality that concerns the childhood and adolescence, and raise awareness in society about child participation.

The regional law on children had the direct participation of children and adolescents in its preparation, collects and develops the field of promotion of rights in children and adolescents, whose maximum expression is the participation bodies, among which is the Council for Children and Adolescents of the Valencian Community.

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