Study on Typology and Policy Responses to Child Begging in the EU

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Member States involved: Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Kosovo, Albania

Organisations or State agencies involved: ICMPD, Terre des Hommes, Ecorys, Save the Children, European Commission: DG Home

Type: Research and standards

Description of the initiative:

A number of core questions need to be examined in-depth, including:

  1. are all child beggars being forced to do so, and if so, by whom?
  2. why have more police investigations not been conducted into the phenomenon?
  3. are all child beggars in Europe from a migrant background?
  4. how can policies be implemented in accordance with the best interests of the child?

In order to seek sound empirical and evidence-based answers to these and other questions, this study brings together a consortium of expert civil society partners from across Europe, together with a research consultancy, and coordinated by ICMPD in Vienna, in order to provide comprehensive findings to assess the implications of child begging for guaranteeing and implementing children's rights within the European Union and beyond.

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