Summary:

Broschure on the right to be heard not only in child-custody cases, criminal cases, and asylum applications, but also on school matters, in political decisions, and in other everyday contexts. In order for children and young people to have a real opportunity to be heard, adults are needed who both can and wish to talk to them.
Adults who are interested in finding out the child’s perspective. A dialogue between a child and an adult is a very unequal situation and it is the adult’s responsibility to do what is necessary to really allow the child to be heard.

http://www.crin.org/docs/Talking with Children and Young People_2004.pdf

Organisation Contact Details:

Ombudsman for Children in Sweden
Norr Malarstrand 6
Box 22 106
S- 104 22 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 8 692 2950
Email: bo@bo.se
Website: www.bo.se

Last updated 05/10/2007 07:41:39