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Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The Committee welcomes the Fritidserklæringen declaration, which enables Norwegian children to participate free of charge in an activity in their spare time. It draws the …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Labour and Social Affairs
  While noting the introduction of the strategy “Children Living in Poverty (2015–2017)”, the Committee, in the light of ongoing child poverty, draws the State party’s …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should allocate sufficient resources to the mental health sector, both in general and according to the individual needs of each municipality.
• Type of action: Statistics and researchTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should investigate the causes of suicidal tendencies, particularly among transgender children and children in migration reception centres, and ensure that measures are …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should improve the diagnosis of mental health problems among children and ensure that any initial diagnosis of ADHD is reassessed, that appropriate …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that municipalities are allocated sufficient funds for health services for children, on the basis of the individual needs of the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that reception facilities for child victims of violence and sexual abuse have a clearly defined organizational structure in order to …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should provide children who have irregular residence status with immediate access to health-care institutions so that they can receive the necessary treatment, …

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should incorporate the principle of the best interests of the child into all legislation and judicial and administrative decision-making procedures affecting children, …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should take measures to guarantee the right of children with disabilities to be cared for by their parents, in alternative care within …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should take all children with disabilities into account in legislation, policies and measures under the principle of equal opportunity and community inclusion, …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesConsultationTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and ModernisationMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should promote comprehensive strategies and accessible mechanisms for the full and effective participation of children with disabilities in decision-making processes affecting their …

Recommended measures (6)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should further increase its efforts to combat violence against and abuse and neglect of children with disabilities, including through research on the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual violence, against children with disabilities, are systematically registered by the authorities, and that …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should further strengthen efforts to prevent institutionalization and eliminate the possibility of institutionalization without the consent of the child and/or the child’s …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure, in the light of the outcome of the report of 1 April 2018 on inclusive education by the expert group …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure that inclusion is given priority over placement in special education institutions or classes, increase the training and assignment of specialized …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should further increase the support provided to parents of children with disabilities and remove obstacles to accessing support, which, reportedly, affect in …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Children and Families
  The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that children of incarcerated parents are provided with adequate psychological treatment and social support.

Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should identify and address the root causes for the situations that have led to the removal of children from parental care.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that the removal of children from parental care is used as a measure of last resort.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should strengthen periodic comprehensive reviews of children placed in foster homes or institutions.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should provide parents with the necessary assistance and support to exercise their parental role and responsibilities in the upbringing and education of …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should provide municipalities with sufficient resources and support so that they can effectively undertake preventive work in families at risk and follow-up …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure the timely detection of children with mental health conditions and provide necessary services.
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should enhance training for caregivers to enable them to deal with children from different cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds.

Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that all forms of separation of children from their parents are always in the best interests of the child, including …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should review the procedures for removing children in emergency cases and provide for a more sensitive approach, ensure that no form of …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should conduct research on the reasons behind the significant disparities among counties regarding children subjected to alternative care measures and emergency placements.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that siblings are not separated when placed in alternative care.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure periodic review of the placement of children in foster care and institutions, and monitor the quality of care therein, including …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should take the measures necessary, including adequate training of personnel, to ensure that children belonging to an indigenous or national minority group …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should improve communication and information exchange between child welfare services and families, in particular migrant families.

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should develop awareness-raising campaigns and programmes targeted at religious communities that conduct child marriages on the harmful effects of child marriage on …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should conduct awareness-raising campaigns targeted at children on how to seek help if they fear being sent abroad to be subjected to …