22nd March 2008
Motion Family friendly community
Order
The City Council shall be responsible to Parliament for review and application the positioning of the UNICEF initiative "Child Friendly Community" and present to the label of the UNICEF "Child Friendly Community".
Background In April 2004, UNICEF Switzerland founded the Working Group on Child-Friendly Community ". With the assistance of experts that developed a questionnaire that allows interested communities to conduct a situation analysis of child-friendliness.
The results are analyzed by UNICEF Switzerland and presented at the request of the municipality in an interview. It is then free to decide the communities, whether they are for the award, "Child-friendly community wants to apply. "
justification
The UNICEF initiative "Child Friendly Community" aims at the implementation of the CRC to support the local level. While children's rights through national and cantonal laws are concerned, which is responsible for implementing these goals but in most cases the individual communities - because the biggest impact of the projects to improve the lives of children can be found in their immediate environment. The initiative thus promotes targeted processes to improve child-friendliness, allowing Swiss communes for the first time to conduct a comprehensive positioning on this issue. In this process be seen under the following policy areas: education, family and school care services, health, leisure, housing / living environment, management, transport and child and youth protection. If that location determination is positive, the municipalities may apply for the label "child-friendly community." This award will benefit primarily the children and young people and increase the town Wil also a greater quality of life. The positive image of a "child-friendly community," thus contributes to the promotion of the entire residential and business location Wil.
Greens prowil
Michael Sarbach
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