Children and young persons travelling alone are particularly vulnerable and therefore need special protection.
In recent years, there has been a lively discussion in the field of child and youth welfare services about how to professionally deal with these minors, including their accommodation, care and long-term planning.
The debate is characterised, among other things, by the tension and sometimes contradiction between the requirements of asylum and foreigners law, on the one hand, and child and youth services law, on the other. Since 2015, the legal framework for the protection and care of these young people has been profoundly reformed. In the discourse, the legislator explicitly underlines the „primacy of child and youth welfare“.
Now it is time to take stock: Not only the legal framework should be discussed, but also the practical implementation as well as the cooperation between relevant municipal actors – especially between youth welfare offices and foreigners authorities. The focus should be placed on how sustainable and child welfare-oriented planning for the young persons can be successful in each individual case.
Language: GERMAN/ ENGLISH (with translation)
Speaker:
Philip Ishola
Independent Consultant, Child Protection / Child Rights, UK
Daniel Jasch
BBZ Beratungs- und Betreuungszentrums für junge Geflüchtete und MigrantInnen, Berlin
Johanna Karpenstein
Referentin im Bundesfachverband für unbegleitete minderjährige Flüchtlinge, Berlin
Philip Schützeberg
Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe Unbegleitete minderjährige Flüchtlinge der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Landesjugendämter und Leiter der Landesstelle für die Verteilung unbegleiteter ausländischer Minderjähriger in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Köln
Moderation:
Heiko Naß
Landespastor und Sprecher des Vorstands des Diakonisches Werkes Schleswig-Holstein, Rensburg und Präsidiumsmitglied im Deutschen Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge e. V.
