/ Town Hall
Monday 24th July 2017
CALVIÀ TOWN HALL IMPLEMENTS WORKSHOPS TO PROMOTE THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND TO INVOLVE CHILDREN AND YOUTHS IN THE POLICIES OF THEIR MUNICIPALITY
In order to promote the children's rights amongst the girls and boys of the municipality, and to know their opinion on the effect that living in a tourist municipality has in their quality of life, the Calvià Town Hall is teaching in municipal summer classrooms workshops titled "The rights of children and the summer".
These workshops have already involved 32 children aged between 9 and 14 in the meetings held in Son Ferrer, Santa Ponça and Bendinat and will continue until the end of August in Peguera and Magaluf.
The rights included in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN in 1989, are discussed in the workshops, and the right to play and rest, the right to express their opinion and to be heard and the rights of children with disabilities are the rights they like to discuss the most.
Through the voice of childhood, Calvià Town Hall wishes to encourage the participation of children and youths in local policies.
The Calvià Town Hall created last May the Local Table of Childhood and Adolescence with the participation of all the political groups and twelve municipal departments which, in a first phase, plans to prepare a report on actions and a diagnostic report on the childhood of the municipality and on the basis of these documents a Childhood and Adolescence Plan will be designed. In a second stage, the Plan will be implemented and the different actions will be monitored, establishing detection systems to respond to new needs that may arise.
This initiative, approved unanimously in the plenary session of April, is framed within the work of Calvià Town Hall to obtain the Child Friendly City seal, a badge awarded by UNICEF Spanish Committee to local governments for the work they do in favour of the rights of children and adolescents. The seal promotes and generates real mechanisms of child participation and has a long-term strategy to incorporate children and adolescents in policies and actions of local stakeholders.
