Strategic documents – Children at Risk

Here we provide you with an overview of mandate and strategy, our activities throughout the years, and the various communiques and other results from high-level meetings which guide our work.

Read more about the structure of our organisation here.

Guiding documents

CBSS Children At Risk Regional Strategy 2020-2025
CBSS Children At Risk Mandate 2020-2025
CBSS Child Safeguarding Commitment
Guidance on the use of photos of children

Ministerial and high-level meeting communiques

Stockholm ministerial meeting on “Children at Risk in the Baltic Sea Region” – March 1999

Meeting with High Officials on Children at Risk in the Baltic Sea Region - October 2001

Senior Officials Meeting on Unaccompanied Children from the Region of the Baltic Sea States - February 2003

Meeting of ministers responsible for children’s issues within the Baltic Sea Region - May 2005

Ministerial Roundtable Conference on the Social Aspects of Trafficking - October 2006

The Tallinn Recommendations and Action Plan on Alternative Care and Family Support 2015-2020

Stockholm Conclusions on protecting migrant and asylum-seeking children - December 2016

Oslo Conclusions on Identifying Children at Risk of Exploitation and Trafficking - May 2018

Report from the high-level non-violent childhoods conference November 2018 PROMISE Barnahus Network Statutes

Guiding international treaties and agreements

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Sustainable development goal 16.2
The Council of Europe Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, also known as "The Lanzarote Convention“

Annual reports