This project, co-financed by the DAPHNE Programme of the European Commission, DG Justice Freedom and Security, aims at fighting discrimination-based violence against undocumented children in Europe, by developing the capacity of concerned partners to protect undocumented children from discrimination in gaining access to housing, education and health care.

The project will be carried out from February 2007 to February 2009 and the partners include: Save the Children (Denmark), Defence for Children International (the Netherlands), Association Jeunes Errants (France) and Andalucia Acoge (Spain). The project will focus on discrimination-based violence against undocumented children in the area of health care, housing, and education in 9 EU member states: Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.

The overall objective is to strengthen the protection of undocumented children against discrimination-based violence in the fields of access to housing, health care and education. The objective will be reached by promoting the communication and exchange of experiences amongst the institutions responsible for the social protection of undocumented children in different European countries, as well as by disseminating reporting tools, recommendations and ethical guidelines at the European level.

The reporting tools developed during the project, as well as examples of good practices, ethical guidelines for social workers, and policy recommendations, will be included in a final publication to be disseminated to all project partners, public authorities and NGOs involved in the protection of undocumented children.  At the end of the project a final conference will be organized in Brussels with all partners and with targeted European policy makers.