Acknowledgements: This report has been written by Agata D’ Addato( Eurochild), Miriana Giraldi, Caroline Van Der Hoeven and Ana Fontal( SOS Children’ s Villages International), with contributions from the following national experts, who have produced the case studies:
• Austria: Sabine Köppl-Lindorfer and Susanne Zoller-Mathies, SOS Children’ s Villages Austria
• Finland: Riikka Tiitola-Salmimies, SOS Children’ s Villages Finland
• Germany: Christina Plafky, Institut für Soziale Arbeit e. V.( ISA); Lena RauschVincent Richardt and Ilona Fuchs, SOS Children’ s Villages Germany
• Greece: Nefeli Pandiri, ARSIS; Athina Kammenou, EADAP; Kalliope Gkliva, SOS Children’ s Villages Greece
• Hungary: Eszter Kosa and Viola Szlankó, SOS Children’ s Villages International;
• Ireland: Katie Mannion, Immigrant Council of Ireland
• Italy: Daria Crimella, Fondazione L’ Albero della Vita
• Slovakia: Zuzana Stevulova and Barbora Messova, Human Rights League
• Serbia: Gordana Vučinić and Maja Simić, SOS Children’ s Villages Serbia
• Sweden: Peter Lindh and Laura MBaye, Reach for Change; and Cecilia Naucler, SOS Children’ s Villages Sweden
• The Netherlands: Mathijs Euwema, International Child Development Initiatives
• UK: Catriona MacSween, Scottish Guardianship Service.
The case studies were edited by: Georgia Dimitropoulou, independent expert.
We would like to thank:
• All the children and young people who shared their experiences with us.
• The advisory committee of this project: Elona Bokshi, ECRE; Georgia Dimitropoulou, independent expert; Lilana Keith, PICUM; Svetlana Radosavljevic, SOS Children’ s Villages; and Federica Toscano, Missing Children Europe.
• ECRE and the organisations gathered under the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts for their expertise, which has been instrumental in developing this report.
• Vera Mikhalovich, Sarah Barden and Claire Rimmer for proofreading the publication.
• Salomé Guibreteau for her valuable support.
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Citation rule: When quoting from this publication, use the following reference: D ' Addato A., Giraldi M., Van Der Hoeven C. and Fontal A.( 2017), Let Children be Children: Lessons from the Field on the Protection and Integration of Refugee and Migrant Children in Europe, Eurochild and SOS Children ' s Villages International, Brussels.
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