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image and have therefore been more
selective in our dissemination of information about the Children’s Division.
For there are groups of children – i.e.
children in residential institutions – for
whom the possibility of complaining to
and getting help from the Ombudsman
can quite often be relevant. We want
these children to be aware of the opportunity to call, write to or chat with
the Children’s Division. This is why the
opportunity to lodge complaints with
the Ombudsman’s Children’s Division
is described in the leaflets from the National Council for Children which must
be given to children placed in care. The
Council is expecting the leaflets, which
concern the rights of children placed in
care etc., to be available in printed form in late summer 2013. This is why one of
the examples described in the cartoon on our website illustrates a situation involving a child placed in care. This is why representatives of the Division bring
along the poster about the Ombudsman’s Children’s Division on monitoring
visits to institutions. The poster includes the telephone number of the Ombudsman institution and a QR code providing direct access to the Children’s Division website. And this is why the Children’s Division has a prominent position
on the page about children placed in care on Børneportalen.dk, a new website
providing children and young people with easy, quick access to advice, help and
information about rights. Børneportalen.dk was launched on 13 May 2013.
Adults around children
To reach the relevant target group of children, it was also important for us to
inform the adults who professionally or otherwise encounter children in their daily
lives about the opportunity to lodge complaints with the Children’s Division.
After all, it is not just children placed in care whose rights may be infringed,
and adults will often be better able to identify the cases where it is relevant
to contact the Children’s Division. In November 2012, we therefore sent the
Children’s Division poster to all local authorities with a letter briefly describing
the tasks of the Division.
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