The Nordic Congress on Child Welfare
Safety for children - New thinking - New approaches How can we contribute to equality in child protection and ensure quality?
Pre-congress
Harpa 5 September 2018
Barnahus a travelling idea - The 20th anniversary of Barnahus in Iceland
5 September 08:00 – 15:30
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:10 Moderator: Hrefna Friðriksdóttir, Professor of Law at the University of Iceland
09:10 - 09:40 Opening address:
Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of
the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children
09:40 - 10:10 Message from the Council of Europe:
Regina Jensdottir, CoE Coordinator on the Rights of the Child
10:10 - 10:30 Message from the Lanzarote Committee:
George Nikolaidis, Chairperson Lanzarote Committee
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00 Address from the Council of the Baltic Sea
States Secretariat:
Turid Heidberg, Head of the Unit for Children at Risk
11:00 - 11:20 Address from the pioneer of Barnahus in
Sweden:
Pro. Carl Göran Swedin, Barnafrid, IKE, Linköping
University, Sweden
11:20 - 11:30 Message from the Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Elizabeth Longfield
11:30 – 12:15 Trauma treatmens that works - Trauma - Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children
Monica Fitzgerald Ph.D., Senior Research
Associate, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at
Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
(interested contact - monica.fitzgerald@colorado.edu )
12:15 – 13:00 Light lunch
13:00 - 13:45 The cross-border impact of BARNAHUS - Practice and ideology
Professor Anna Kaldal, Law Faculty Stockholm
University Sweden
13:45 - 14:30 Helping child victims to speak effectively
Pro. Michael E. Lamb, Dep. of Psychology,
University of Cambridge UK
(iterested contact mel37@cam.ac.uk )
Bragi Guðbrandsson, former General Director of The Governmental Agency For Child Protection in Iceland
The language of the pre-congress will be English
The Nordic Congress on Child Welfare – NBK2018
Harpa 5 – 7 September 2018
Safety for children - new thinking - new approaches
How can we contribute to equality in child protection and ensure the quality?
5 September 15:00 – 19:00
15:00 - 16:00 Registration
16:00 - 16:30 Opening session: Ásmundur Einar DaðasonMinister of Social Affairs and Equality
16:30 - 17:30 Opening plenary: Implementing Signs of
Safety as the organizational framework
Eileen Munro Professor of Social Policy at the London
School of Economics
17:30 - 19:00 Welcome session – Reykjavik City Hall
Address: Dr. Viðar Halldórsson, sociologist
6 September 09:00 – 17:00
09:00 - 09:05 Moderators: Pall Olafsson Head of consulting and education, Government Agency for Child Protection in Iceland and Regína Jensdóttir CoE Coordinator on the Rights of the Child, Council of Europe
09:05 - 09:20 Ari Eldjárn - Icelandic stand up!
09:20 - 10:10 A child rights approach to child protection
Kirsten Sandberg, Professor of Law at the University of
Oslo and member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20 Placing children and young people outside
their homes in Denmark – New approaches?
Inge Bryderup, Professor at Aalborg
University Denmark
11:20 - 12:00 Equality and quality for all? Young people
in child protection
Dr. Elina Pekkarinen Research Manager in Finnish Youth
Research Network
12:00 - 12:15 Questions and thoughts
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:15 Parallel sessions
14:15 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 15:45 Parallel sessions
15:45 - 17:00 Child's right to protection from violence and abuse: The Nordic Ombudsmen for Children
19:00 - 23:00 Congress Party – Food and Fun with the Whales of Iceland!
7 September 09:00 – 13:00
09:00 - 09:40 Soundness and justifiability in child
welfare proceedings
Professor LL.D. Elisabeth Gording Stang, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
09:40 - 10:20 The interaction of procedural rules and
fundamental rights in child protection cases
Heida Bjorg Palmadottir, PhD student at Reykjavik
University´s School of Laws and General Director of The Governmental Agency
for Child Protection in Iceland
10:20 - 10:30 Questions and thoughts
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Rethinking child protection: child
participation and child welfare
Dr. Maria Heimer, Department of Political Science, Uppsala
University, Sweden
11:40 - 12:20 The empowerment of children in justice
systems: Participation and relational representation
Hrefna Fridriksdottir, Professor of family and inheritance
law at the University of Iceland
12:20 - 12:30 Questions and thoughts
12:30 - 12:45 Presentation of next NBK in Denmark 2021
12:45 - 13:00 Closing session: Gudni Th. Johannesson thePresident of Iceland concludes
All keynotes will be in English and the parallell sessions will either be in English or Scandinavian language
