The event took place within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Lviv OVA and the international charitable organization “Partnership for Every Child”.
On November 30, a seminar was held in Lviv for children’s services workers who carry out their activities in the communities of Yavorivskyi, Sambirskyi and Drohobytskyi districts on the peculiarities of protecting the rights and interests of children during wartime.
During October – November, specialists trained more than 150 employees of district, city, village and village services for children’s affairs of the region.
During the day, the participants of the seminar together with the senior expert consultant of the UNICEF Project “Monitoring and supporting children in conditions of war” Aksana Filipishina and the project expert Valentina Mykhaylenko considered the following topics:
international and national legislation in the field of child rights protection;
procedure for children with status to travel abroad;
participation of the service for children’s affairs in court proceedings, representation of the child’s interests in court, preparation
lawsuits and other procedural documents, collection of evidence base;
placement of children in family forms of upbringing in wartime conditions;
the principle of the best interests of the child;
the children’s service as a key entity for the protection of children’s rights;
delimitation of the competence of services for children in conditions of decentralization;
features of a child acquiring the status of an orphan and a child deprived of parental care in
conditions of martial law;
features of protecting the rights and accompanying a child during martial law and other important topics.
In addition to the theoretical part, there was also work in groups, during which specific cases of violation of children’s rights and renewal of their rights were worked out. At the end of the seminar, the participants passed the test.
“With the help of such measures, we increase the knowledge and skills of employees in the field of ensuring the protection of children’s rights and strengthen the ability of employees of children’s services to apply international and national standards of work in this area,” said the head of the LOVA Children’s Service, Volodymyr Lys.