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Our Chair Gerison Lansdown wrote a blog for the Huffington Post UK about the Rotherham scandal and the need for children and young people to be listened to and taken seriously in society. She states, “We need to make a commitment to children that it is them, not the abusers who will be protected from hereon.”
On March 1st as part of the International Day at their college, students involved in our Hearing All Voices project will run events and hold a raffle to raise money to support children without parental care as a consequence of the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. If you can offer anything as raffle prizes, or want to buy raffle tickets, please contact us at ccenquiries@ioe.ac.uk or on 0207 612 6649.
The Child to Child Resource Book is available online! It is one of the most widely used Child to Child publications. Its popularity led it to be translated and adapted into as many as 31 languages.
Since Monday we have been celebrating #iwill week, as our Hearing All Voices project has successfully contributed to the campaign with its groups of disadvantaged young people who took action in their communities. One group raised awareness of bullying and the second supported a charity that helps homeless people.
Earlier this year, a group of young migrants took action against bullying in their college in London, as part of our Hearing All Voices project.
Our copyright free resources are now available for download in English, Spanish and French. They include: manuals for trainers and facilitators; activity guides for adults and children; and storybooks. They address a range of thematic areas, including (but not limited to) education, health, hygiene, nutrition and life-skills.
Five of our partners from Eastern Africa and Eastern Europe participated in CATS-Children as Actors for Transforming Society at the end of July 2015. For one week they exchanged views and discussed the ins and outs of children’s participation with children, young people and other child rights practitioners from around the world.
The is a recap of the lessons learnt from the team of the Safer Internet Center at CATS. They follow the conference’s rights-based approach to present their experiences through the rights they enjoyed during the CATS 2015 week.