Investing in Children's Services, Improving Outcomes

Investing in Children's Services,

Improving Outcomes

Publication launch Brussels, 30-31 May 2016

Day 1: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, 30 May 2016 13:30 - 18:00 Day 2: European Parliament, 31 May 2016 9:30 - 13:00

Contact: Alfonso Lara Montero Tel: +44 (0)1273 739 039 Email: [email protected]

This event is hosted by Nathalie Griesbeck MEP and supported by the ALDE group.

Welcome word

Dear colleagues,

We would like to warmly welcome you to the official launch of our publication Investing in children’s services, improving outcomes, hosted by Nathalie Griesbeck MEP and supported by the ALDE group. Early investment and intervention are key for children’s development and later outcomes, as documented by a large body of evidence which shows that the early years are crucial in people’s development and impact on adults’ social, economic and labour outcomes. The participation at this event of over 130 participants from 21 European countries, at all levels of policy, practice and governance, certainly underlines the relevance of this topic.

The European Social Network (ESN) has been working on children’s services for several years. In particular, between 2013 and 2016 we have been working with directors of children’s services, government, child welfare agencies and experts in children’s services in 14 European countries to contribute to implementing the European Commission’s Recommendation on investing in children. This broad collaboration has resulted in a comprehensive analysis of child welfare and child protection policies and services in those countries and a cross-country comparison of the situation in Europe, which we gladly present in our study Investing in children’s services, improving outcomes.

We are delighted that the launch of our publication is being hosted by Nathalie Griesbeck, who is Vice-chair of the European Parliament’s intergroup on children’s rights, and we hope that the debate at the meeting will feed future discussions in the intergroup. We are very pleased that the launch is taking place at the European Parliament that in November 2015 adopted a child poverty resolution, which was endorsed by a majority of MEPs. We hope that this event will contribute to implementing the Parliament’s resolution, which calls for a roadmap to help EU Member States implement the Recommendation.

We believe that this event will be a great opportunity for you to learn more about children’s services and exchange expertise and practice with ESN members and external partner organisations to contribute to implementing key policy documents. We encourage you to be actively involved in the discussions online on Twitter @ESNsocial #INVCH16 #INVCH_ESNStudy and on our LinkedIn group Social Services in Europe.

With very best wishes,

Christian Fillet Chair, European Social Network

Background

The European Social Network (ESN) has been working on aspects related to children’s wellbeing for the past 8 years. In 2008-2009, ESN had a working group on children and families, which consisted of directors of children and family services from across the EU, and concluded with the report ‘Breaking the cycle of deprivation’. In 2011, ESN organised a seminar exploring early years’ services and child protection. Throughout 2011 and 2012, we published various papers and attended consultations with the European Commission and Member States to contribute to drafting the European Commission’s Recommendation ‘Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage’. The Recommendation, which was published on 20 February 2013, presents Member States with policy guidance on multi- dimensional children’s policies around three pillars: access to resources, quality services and child participation.

The Recommendation is a good policy guidance, but it is essential that policy principles are translated into practice. This is why between 2013 and 2015, ESN has been working with a number of agencies to map the implementation of children’s services in 14 European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This has helped us to identify strengths and gaps and suggest proposals for improvement in line with the European Recommendation. These strengths and gaps are explored in the publication Investing in children’s services, improving outcomes, which is being officially launched on 30-31 May 2016.

We used a two-fold methodology. First, we designed a questionnaire where the overarching principles contained in the Recommendation were formulated as questions with the aim of gathering intelligence. As a result, 14 country profiles were drafted to address how those principles might be implemented in practice. Second, we organised three peer reviews, one per year, bringing together one delegation per country consisting of children services’ directors; national, regional and local government’s representatives with responsibilities in children’s services and service providers from each participating country. At these peer review meetings, participants assessed key issues raised in the answers to their questionnaires and compared policy and practice across their countries.

The official publication’s launch is distributed in two days. On 30 May, ESN members will meet to discuss some of the report’s key findings with a focus on child protection reform and unaccompanied children. At the meeting there will be participants from the 14 countries involved in the project as well as from other European countries. We hope that this meeting will serve to set the scene for future work that could explore specific issues, such as family approaches in child protection or specific services for unaccompanied children. On 31 May, the official launch of the study Investing in children’s services, improving outcomes will take place at the European Parliament at an event hosted by Nathalie Griesbeck MEP. We hope that the strengths and gaps highlighted in the publication and at the event will serve as inspiration for the European Commission and national governments to monitor the implementation of the Recommendation.

Programme

Monday 30th May (by invitation only)

Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Brussels

Registration of participants (Outside De Gasperi room) 12:45-13:30 Walking lunch (Schuman Lobby) Welcome John Halloran, CEO, European Social Network 13:30-13:45 Key issues identified in the study  Alfonso Lara Montero, Policy Director, European Social Network

Child protection reform: permanence and stability for children in care Chaired by John Halloran, CEO, European Social Network Louise Hill, Policy Implementation Lead, Centre for Excellence for 13:45-15:00 Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS), Scotland, UK  Caroline Vink, Senior Advisor, Youth Institute, The Netherlands Pravda Ignatova, former Director in the Agency for Social Assistance, Bulgaria

15:00-15:30 Discussion in tables and feedback 15:30-15:45 Coffee break Care and protection of unaccompanied children Chaired by Michele Levoy, Director, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Fanny Bertrand, Project Manager for unaccompanied children, 15:45-16:30 Directorate for children and families, Pas-de-Calais County Council, France Graham Owen, Director of Social Services (Municipality of Trosa), National Association of Social Services Directors (FSS), Sweden

16:30-17:00 Discussion in tables and feedback

17:00-17:15 Break

Strengths and gaps identified in the countries Chaired by David Brindle, Public Services Editor, The Guardian  Cristina Cuculas, Head of Policies and Strategies Department, National Authority for the Protection of Children’s Rights and Adoption, Romania Jeanne Fagnani, Emeritus Research Director at the National Centre for 17:15-18:00 Scientific Research (CNRS), and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES) in Paris, France  Judit Lannert, Senior Expert, Tárki-Tudok Centre for Knowledge Management and Educational Research, Hungary Magda De Meyer, Honorary Member of the Belgian Parliament and President of the Dutch speaking Women's Council, Belgium 19:30 Dinner at L’Atelier Européen (see practical information)

Tuesday 31st May 2016

European Parliament, Room PHS 5B 001

09:00-10:00 Registration of participants (see practical information)

Introduction to the study Investing in Children’s Services, Improving Outcomes Chaired by John Halloran, CEO, European Social Network Opening by Natalie Griesbeck MEP, Vice-chair of the intergroup on children’s rights, European Parliament 10:00-10:40  Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain  Alfonso Lara Montero, Policy Director, European Social Network  Julius op de Beke, Policy Analyst, Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission Trends in children’s services – Inclusive early childcare  Chaired by Hugh Frazer, Coordinator of the European Social Policy Network (ESPN)  Willem Adema, Senior Economist, Social Policy Division of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for 10:40-11:15 Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)  Aisling Gillen, National Policy Development Manager for Family Support, Child and Family Agency (Tusla), Ireland  Pär Alexandersson, Department officer, National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden 11:15-11:30 Coffee break

Trends in children’s services – Quality and effective child protection Chaired by Hugh Frazer, Coordinator of the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos, Head of the Equality and Citizens' Rights Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) 11:30-12:05 Marie-Paule Martin-Blachais, Consultant in child protection, former Managing Director of the National Observatory of Children at Risk, France  Maria Domingas Fortio, Former Director of Childhood and Youth Welfare, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal Moving forward Chaired by David Brindle, Public Services Editor, The Guardian  Bonita Kleefkens, Manager, Directorate of Youth Policy at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands  Julien Van Geertsom, President, Federal Public Planning Service for 12:05-12:50 Social Integration, Belgium  Helen Happer, Chief Inspector for Strategic Scrutiny, Care Inspectorate, Scotland, UK Adriana Ciampa, Director of the Department for children and adolescence policies, Ministry of Labour and Social affairs, Italy Margaret Tuite, Coordinator for the rights of the child, Directorate General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission Closing 12:50-13:00 John Halloran, CEO, European Social Network Nathalie Griesbeck MEP

Speakers

Nathalie Griesbeck is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), Vice-chair of the intergroup on children’s rights and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. She is a member of the EP’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee, and a substitute member of the employment and social affairs committee. She holds a master's degree in public law and postgraduate diplomas in public law and legal history. She was formerly a lecturer in public law at the University of Metz and holds the Palmes académiques and Ordre National du Mérite.

John Halloran is the Chief Executive of the European Social Network (ESN) and helped to found it in 1998, having established the first European Social Services Conference in 1993. He has worked in social service management in France and England, where he was responsible for residential and community services for the elderly, people with disabilities and family and child protection services. He was an advisor to various local authorities, government departments

and NGOs in the UK and internationally.

Alfonso Lara Montero is the Policy Director at the European Social Network (ESN), where he is responsible for leading and managing ESN’s policy, practice and research programme. Alfonso has been the author and co-author of publications on mental health, evidence-based practice on social services, integrated services and the European Semester. Since 2013, he has been responsible for managing the international project “Investing in children’s services, improving

outcomes”. He holds an MA in European Studies and an MSc in Public Policy. Monday 30th May Child protection reform Louise Hill is the Policy Implementation Lead in the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS). Listening to and learning from children and young people has been central to Louise's work across research, policy and practice. In her role she brings people together to improve and implement national and local policies that make a meaningful difference to children and young people's everyday lives.

Caroline Vink works as a senior advisor at the Youth Institute in The Netherlands. She works in the Programme Transition and Transformation Unit, where she advises local government and service providers for children, young people and families on the transformation and decentralisation of children and young people’s services. She has also worked on an international review of children’s policies. Until the end of 2013 she was the chair of Eurochild’s thematic working group on Family and Parenting Support.

Pravda Ignatova was a director in the Agency for Social Assistance at the Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy for 14 years. In this position, she managed EU funding in the fields of social services, social inclusion, social economy and social innovation. Since 2010, her work focussed on children's services in the framework of the government’s ‘Vision for deinstitutionalisation of children’s services’ and the action plan for its implementation. Ms Ignatova is currently an independent consultant on EU funding, social inclusion and social services for local authorities.

Care and protection of unaccompanied children

Michele Levoy is the Director of the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM). She joined PICUM in 2002 as a researcher on the organisation’s first EU project on solidarity towards undocumented migrants in Europe and she became director in 2006. She was previously coordinator of an international Master Degree programme in human ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and coordinator of a European multicultural society youth programme at Pax Christi International. She has worked with resettled refugees in Chicago (USA), and with migrants in Brazil.

Fanny Bertrand specialised in political sciences during her studies. She joined Pas-de-Calais County Council in 2012 while doing her master’s thesis on the reception of unaccompanied foreign children in France. Her work is both on-the-ground, collaborating with associations and NGOs working on supporting migrants when they arrive in Calais, and also involves strategic work and planning within the Pas-de-Calais Directorate for children and families.

Graham Owen is currently the Director of social services at the municipality of Trosa (Sweden), and a member of the Board of the Association of Swedish Directors of Social Services (FSS). Originally from the UK, Graham has a broad experience as a social worker and social services manager which stretches over five decades and includes experience from the UK, the United States and Sweden. His special work interests are child protection and family support.

Strengths and gaps

Cristina Cuculas has been working on children’s rights since 1999 and is currently the Head of the Policy and Strategy department of the National Authority for the Protection of Children’s Rights and Adoption in Romania. She is also a national evaluation expert on international and EU-funded programmes. Cristina represented Romania in the Council of Europe’s group of experts responsible for drafting the European norms and principles on child abuse and sexual exploitation.

Jeanne Fagnani is Emeritus Research Director at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (University of Paris1- Sorbonne), and an associate researcher at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES) in Paris. She specialises in family policies in France and Germany (specifically financial transfers and services) and early childcare policies in European countries.

Judit Lannert has been engaged in educational research since 1990. In 2007, she was selected by the education committee of the Hungarian Parliament to be a member of the team responsible for preparing the White Book on Education, which was published in 2013. She has been director at the National Institute for Public Education and at Tárki-Tudok Centre for Knowledge Management and Educational Research. Her main interest lies in empirical research into

school effectiveness, the transition from school to work, and equity issues.

Magda De Meyer is an Honorary Member of the Belgian Parliament and President of the Dutch-speaking Women’s Council of Belgium. Former senior advisor to the Ministers of Education, Social Integration and the Fight against Poverty, Ms De Meyer is an expert in poverty and gender issues.

Tuesday 31st May

Gøsta Esping-Andersen has been actively engaged in applied policy for international organisations, including the United Nations, the OECD, the International Social Security Association and the European Union. Mr. Andersen has been actively involved in the design of early childhood policies in several countries and was a member of former European Commission President Barroso's social policy advisory group. He is currently directing a five-year European Research Council

funded project on family polarisation and demographic change.

Julius op de Beke studied economics in Tilburg (Amsterdam) and Los Angeles. Julius worked for the Dutch National Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis and the Ministry of Education. Since joining the European Commission, he has worked as a policy analyst in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, in the Evaluation Unit of the Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs and as a desk officer for the European Social Fund. He is

currently a Policy Officer for social inclusion with responsibility for monitoring the implementation of the 2013 European Commission’s Recommendation "Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage".

Trends in children’s services – Inclusive early childcare

Hugh Frazer is an adjunct professor at the Department of Applied social studies of Maynooth University (Ireland) and the Coordinator of the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) which advises the European Commission on social policy. Hugh is an expert on policies to combat poverty and social exclusion and has written extensively on these issues, especially child poverty. He has acted as an advisor to a wide range of national and European organisations such as ESN,

Eurochild, EAPN and UNICEF. He is the former director of the Irish government's Combat Poverty Agency.

Willem Adema is a senior economist at the social policy division of the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. He leads a team of analysts of family and children policies that maintains the online OECD Family database. Mr. Adema prepared several publications including “Babies and Bosses” (2002-2007), “Doing Better for Families (2011) and “Paid Parental Leave: Lessons from OECD Countries and Selected U.S. States” (2015).

Aisling Gillen is currently working as a National Policy Development Manager for Family Support in Ireland’s Child and Family Agency (Tusla), where she has co-authored various policy, strategy and guidance documents on family support, commissioning and parenting. During her career, she has also managed disability services and regional children’s services in Ireland. Ms Gillen has 15 years of experience working as a speech and language therapist and is a

Board member of Young Ballymun, a preventative and early intervention programme.

Pär Alexandersson is a programme officer at the National Board of Health and Welfare (Sweden), where he works on issues related to children, family matters and the coordination between social, health and education services. He has been the Secretary of two governmental committees on the Act concerning support and services for persons with functional impairments and the Act on compulsory care for young people.

Trends in children’s services – Quality and effective child protection Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos is a social scientist, educated in the UK. In 1984, he started teaching at the University of Ioannina and later at Athens College. He conducted and coordinated national and transnational EU-funded research projects on several human rights issues, e.g. discrimination, racism, anti-Semitism, Roma inclusion and children’s rights. He started working for the Fundamental Rights Agency in 2003 and is currently the Head of the Equality and

Citizens' Rights Department.

Marie-Paule Martin-Blachais is now an independent consultant in child protection. Until 2015, she was the General Director of the French national public institute for child protection (GIPED), where she oversaw the national emergency helpline and the National Observatory of Children at Risk (ONED). She was the President of ChildONEurope between 2011 and 2014 and contributed to the ESN project “Investing in children’s services, improving outcomes”.

By training, Marie-Paule is a medical doctor specialised in psychopathology, family therapy and public policy evaluation.

Maria Domingas Fortio was the director of the Department for Children and Youth welfare at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa between 2012 and 2016. Prior to this, she worked for Santa Casa as a coordinator of the departments for social care, children’s and older people’s services. Ms Fortio also coordinated projects on community interventions (1994-1996) and children at risk in Lisbon (1989-1991).

Moving forward David Brindle is Public Services Editor of the Guardian. He has been the paper's social affairs correspondent and editor of its Society section and has won awards for his coverage of social services, disability and nursing issues. He is a regular conference chair and facilitator and a member of various advisory bodies in the public and voluntary sectors. He is the Chair of NDTi, a non-profit organisation that works to make care and support more inclusive, and the Vice-chair of the Recovery Focus group of charities working in mental health and addiction.

Bonita Kleefkens is a Manager at the Directorate of Youth Policy at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in The Netherlands. All of her working life, Bonita has been committed to improving public services for vulnerable people. In the last 5 years, she has been focussing on children and young people, specifically on fighting child abuse, sexual exploitation of young women and radicalisation. She is responsible for children policies under the Dutch Presidency

of the European Council between January and June 2016.

Julien Van Geertsom is the President of the managing board of the Belgian federal Public Planning Service for Social Integration. Prior to this, he was Administrator General of the service for overseas social security and Adjunct interregional secretary of the General Belgian Trade Union, where he was responsible for labour market policy, diversity and cultural affairs. His initial training was in psychological and educational sciences.

Helen Happer qualified as a social worker from Aberdeen University in 1984 and has spent her career working for better outcomes for children and families, in central and local government and in the third sector. She has been developing and leading programmes of inspection and support for improvement for more than 10 years and is currently Chief Inspector in the Care Inspectorate, Scotland’s independent body for regulation and inspection of social care services. Her responsibilities include scrutiny and assurance of social work services and multi-agency partnership working across services for children and young people, adults and community justice.

Adriana Ciampa has been working on children’s rights since 2011 and is currently the Director of the Department for children and adolescence policies at the Ministry of Labour and Social affairs in Italy. In 2011-2012, she was the Italian government representative in the European Social Protection Committee (SPC)’s ad-hoc group on child poverty. In 2011, she was an expert for the Italian delegation to the UN Committee on Children’s Rights, where she was responsible for discussing the Italian government’s report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Margaret Tuite has been the European Commission Coordinator for the Rights of the Child since November 2011 in the DG Justice unit responsible for fundamental rights and the rights of the child. Margaret and her team ensure proactive coordination within the Commission and also with external stakeholders. A long-serving Commission official, in her previous post as Deputy Head of Unit for criminal law, Ms Tuite was responsible for European e-Justice, contributing to the improvement of access to justice and cross- border judicial cooperation.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

30 MAY

The meeting on 30 May will take place at Hotel Silken Berlaymont from 13:30 to 18:00 in the De Gasperi Room. Lunch will be served in the Schuman Lobby from 12:30.

DINNER

A dinner has been arranged for invited ESN members and contributors at 19:30 on 30 May at restaurant L’Atelier Européen, which is located a few minutes’ walk from the hotel (see map and address below). Delegates will be met by ESN staff in the hotel lobby at 19:15 and then walk to the restaurant.

Hotel: Silken Berlaymont Restaurant : L’Atelier Européen

11-19 Boulevard Charlemagne 28 Rue Franklin/Franklinstraat 1000 Brussels/Bruxelles 1000 Brussels/Bruxelles Phone: 0032 2 2310909 Phone: 0032 2 7349140 Web: Hotel Silken Berlaymont Web: L’Atelier Européen

Official launch of the study – 31st May

The official launch of ESN's publication ‘Investing in Children’s Services, Improving Outcomes’ will take place on 31 May, from 09:30-13:00 at the European Parliament (Room PHS 5B 001). Please arrive at the European Parliament at 9:00 am to leave enough time to go through access and security procedures.

Registered participants can collect their access badges at the former Info-point of the European Parliament on the ground floor of the Altiero Spinelli Building (red pin on the map below), where ESN staff will be waiting. Once the access badges have been distributed, staff members from the European Parliament will escort delegates to the meeting room. Participants must carry a valid passport or identity card with them. Please note that without your passport or identity card you will not be able to access the European Parliament. If you have any issues please contact Andreas Johansen on +44 7713880374. If you already have an access badge to the European Parliament, please go directly to the meeting room.

How to get from the hotel to the Parliament

View of the European Parliament. Please meet at the Info Point

List of participants

Name Title, Organisation Country Senior Economist, Social Policy Division, Directorate for

Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for OECD Willem Adema Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Pär Department Officer, National Board of Health and Welfare Sweden Alexandersson Coordinator, Companions of Action for the Family Eva Andersson EU development (CADF-ONG) Department Manager, Youth Welfare Office, Municipality of Monika Baars Germany Cologne Anna Barletta Policy Officer, Sicily Region EU Michaela Bauer Partnerships Manager, UNICEF EU Antonietta Associated Researcher, National Research Council Institute Italy Bellisari for Research on Population (IRPPS-CNR) Project Manager for unaccompanied children, Directorate for Fanny Bertrand France children and families, Pas-de-Calais County Council Policy and Advocacy Officer, Confederation of Family Magdi Birtha EU Organisations in the European Union (COFACE) Elisabeth Flora Research Officer, National Observatory of Children at Risk France Bolter (ONED) Anne-Françoise Researcher, Birth and Childhood Office (ONE), Wallonia- Belgium Bouvy Brussels Federation United David Brindle Public Services Editor, The Guardian Kingdom Christof Cesnovar Policy Officer, Federal Chamber of Labour Austria Delphine European Affairs Delegate, Edenred Belgium Chilese-Lemarinier Director of the Department for children and adolescence Adriana Ciampa Italy policies, Ministry of Labour and Social affairs Researcher, National Research Council Institute for Research Antonella Ciocia Italy on Population (IRPPS-CNR) Liliane Cocozza Vice-president, European Social Action Network France United Nick Cronshaw Architect, Social and Healthcare, IBM Kingdom Cristina Mirela Head of Policy and Strategy Department, National Authority Romania Cuculas for the Protection of Children’s Rights and Adoption Carmine De Blasio General Director, Consortium of social services, Area A5 Italy Honorary Member of the Belgian Parliament and President of Magda De Meyer Belgium the Dutch-speaking Women’s Council of Belgium Policy Advisor, Flemish Agency for Persons with Disabilities Femke Duquet Belgium (VAPH)

Jurgen De Swert Manager, Trilations consultancy Belgium Head of sector - studies and analyses, Education, Audiovisual Arlette Delhaxhe EU and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) Ioannis Head of Equality and Citizens' Rights Department, European EU Dimitrakopoulos Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) Rannveig Director of Family Services, city of Hafnarfjörður Iceland Einarsdóttir Gøsta Esping- Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Spain Andersen University of Barcelona Emeritus Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Jeanne Fagnani Research (CNRS); Associate Researcher, Institute of France Economic and Social Research Ana Feder Policy Advisor, EUROCITIES EU Aurelio Policy Officer, DG Employment, European Commission EU Fernandez Lopez Chair, European Social Network; Director of Public Centre for Christian Fillet Belgium Social Welfare, Bruges (OCMW) Valeria Forlani Consultant, AVSI Foundation Italy Maria Domingas Former Director of Childhood and Youth Welfare, Santa Casa Portugal Fortio da Misericórdia de Lisboa Godelieve Retired senior official, European Commission EU Fransen Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; Hugh Frazer Ireland Coordinator of the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) Policy Analyst, Department for Children, Families and Youth, Sabine Gallep German Association for Public and Private Welfare (Deutscher Germany Verein) Anna Gärdegård Project Manager, Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues Sweden Antonio Garrido Technical Advisor, Regional Ministry of Equality, Health and Spain Porras Social Policies, Regional government of Andalucía Leopold Gerits Advisor to the director general, Federal Public Service Health Belgium Amelle Ghayou- Director of Social Affairs and Solidarity, Gironde County France Migeon Council

National Policy Manager for Family Support, Child and Family Aisling Gillen Ireland Agency (Tusla)

European Affairs Representative, SOS Children's Villages Miriana Girardi EU International Stephan Head of Youth Support Division, City of Düsseldorf Germany Glaremin Ellen Gorris Assistant Policy Officer, European Commission EU Netherlan Wim Gorrisen Director, Netherlands Youth Institute ds

Gitta Griffioen President, FICE Europe (NGO) EU Emma Grindulis Advocacy and Parliamentary Officer, Eurochild EU Francesco Policy and Communications Officer, European Federation for EU Guerzoni Services to Individuals (EFSI) Assistant Director Safeguarding and Care, Brighton and Hove United Helen Gulvin City Council Kingdom Chief Inspector for Strategic Scrutiny, Care Inspectorate, United Helen Happer Scotland Kingdom Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Section of Psychiatrist, Marc Hermans EU European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) Director for Children and Families, Pas-de-Calais County Pierre Hilaire France Council María del Pilar Deputy Director of the Social Department, Mental Health and Spain Hilarión Care Unit, University Institute Avedis Donabedian Policy Implementation Lead, Centre for Excellence for Looked United Louise Hill After Children in Scotland (CELCIS), Scotland Kingdom Former Director in the Agency for Social Assistance (ASA) Pravda Ignatova Bulgaria and independent consultant Jean-Marc General Director, Public Centre for Social Welfare, (CPAS) Belgium Jalhay Liège Chair, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in United Alexandrina Jay Scotland (CELCIS), Scotland Kingdom Kateřina Programme Manager and Deputy Team Leader, EU policies in EU Kapounová the Czech Republic, European Commission Bonaventura Netherlan Manager, Youth Policy, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports Kleefkens ds Verena Knaus- Senior Policy Advisor, UNICEF EU Nrecaj Khadidiatou President, La Palabre Association France Koita Marcel Policy Officer, City of Bremen Germany Kreykenbohm Sergo Director, Institute for the Development of Social Services Poland Kuruliszwili (IRSS) Senior Expert, Tárki-Tudok Centre for Knowledge Judit Lannert Hungary Management and Educational Research Marjorie Lantier Intern, Defence for Children international Belgium Oxanne Intern, Defence for Children International Belgium Le Boulanger Director, Platform for International Cooperation on Michele Levoy EU Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Assistant Professor, International Centre for Reproductive Els Leye Belgium Health, Ghent University

Development Manager, National Institute for Health and Päivi Lindberg Finland Welfare (THL) Olivia Lind Director, Child Circle Belgium Haldorsson François Senior Policy Officer, Public Centre for Social Welfare, Kortrijk Belgium Maarten (OCMW) EU Policy Officer, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities Judith Macgregor EU (COSLA) Tiiu Madal Brussels' representative, Association of Estonian Cities EU Consultant, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Monica Mancini Italy Department for Family Policies Naim Mandri First Secretary, Mission of Albania to the EU EU John Mangan EU Policy Advisor, SOS Children's Villages International EU Isabelle Martijn Attaché, Federal Public Planning Service for Social Integration Belgium Marie-Paule Consultant in child protection, former Managing Director of the France Martin-Blachais National Observatory of Children at Risk Gizella Matyasi Senior advisor, Representation of Budapest to the EU EU Antonio Head of the Disability Support Division, Lazio Region Italy Mazzarotto Head, Programme coordination and implementation division, Jolanta Department for People with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Lithuania Mikulėnienė Security and Labour Aurel Mocan Director of social services, Municipality of Cluj-Napoca Romania Maria Carme Montserrat Professor, University of Girona Spain Boada Researcher, Observatory on Child, Youth and Youth Care, Lorise Moreau Belgium Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Sabina Morosini Senior Expert Advisor, Ministry of Social Policy and Youth Croatia Turčinović Head of Department for projects, strategies and logistics, Teodora Mrejeru Community Development and Care Directorate, Municipality of Romania Arad Gloire Nkema Assistant, K*NGO (NGO) Belgium United Tessy Ojo CEO, The Diana Award (charity) Kingdom Julius op de Policy Analyst, Directorate General for Employment and EU Beke Social Affairs, European Commission Director of social services (Municipality of Trosa) and member Graham Owen of the Board of the National Association of Social Services Sweden Directors (FSS) Irina EU Policy and Advocacy Adviser, Lumos (Protecting children, EU Papancheva providing solutions organisation)

Aurelia Oana General Director, Municipality of Arad, Community Romania Parvulescu Development and Care Directorate Staff member, Public centre for Social Welfare, Antwerp Patricia Peeters Belgium (OCMW) Manager of Youth and Family Department, Municipalities of Netherlan Diana Piek Boxtel and Sint Michielsgestel ds Head of the Brussels Office, South Bohemia Region and René Prihoda EU Hradec Králové Region Chief Specialist Social Services Unit for Families and Sandra Rancāne Latvia Children, Welfare Department, Riga City Council Ursula Rau Children and Youth Protection Service, Düsseldorf Germany Janine Renier Delegate, European Social Action Network (ESAN) France Claudia Resmini Trainee, Sicily Region EU Janice Senior Advisor, European Schoolnet France Richardson Carlos Santos Head of Services for coordinating community social services, Spain Guerrero Autonomous Community of Galicia Annick Schoups Management Coordinator, City of Antwerp Belgium Alexandra Psychologist, Institute for Social Security Portugal Simões Hanna Policy Officer and civil servant, Flemish Agency for Disabled Belgium Steenwegen Persons (VAPH) Ingrid Stegeman Programme Manager, EuroHealthNet EU Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sport, Netherlan Christie Stiphout Youth Department ds Elzbieta PhD Student, Janusz Korczak Pedagogical University in Poland Strzemieczna Warsaw Katalin Szatmari Policy Officer, European Commission EU Coordinator for the Rights of the Child, Directorate-General for Margaret Tuite EU Justice and Consumers, European Commission Susanne Unger Desk Officer, Saxony Liaison Office Brussels EU PhD student, Research Institute for Work and Society, Özgün Ünver Belgium University of Leuven Mathias Vaes Head of Department, Sociaal Huis Mechelen Belgium Lise Vandahl Vice-director, National Board of Social Services Denmark Caroline Van der EU Policy Advisor, SOS Children's Villages International EU Hoeven Julien Van President, PPS Social Integration Belgium Geertsom Geertruida van Netherlan Programme Manager, Municipality of The Hague Noort ds

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