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The Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz Caballero, participated in the opening ceremony of the XIII International Congress of Child Abuse, organized by the Association of Support to Child Abused (AMAIM).
Ruiz Caballero highlighted the important work that AMAIM has been doing since 1990 in favor of the most vulnerable children and fighting against child abuse that exists in our society.
From the City of Murcia "we support these kinds of events that are privileged spaces for reflection, awareness and fight against this scourge" and, as Conchita Ruiz has pointed out, "to identify new achievements and to impel new challenges that allow us to advance in The achievement of this objective. "
"We are highly committed and working ceaselessly against child abuse, since thousands of children are exploited or trafficked because of their lack of protection, their status as unaccompanied minors that make them even more vulnerable to Human greed ".
Therefore, this XIII Congress, said the Councilor for Social Rights, "has the full support of the Consistory", because according to Ruiz Caballero, "it is not only a workplace of this event, but also a framework for commitment, to Assume it and reaffirm it. "
Conchita Ruiz recalled that attention to children and especially the most vulnerable "was the starting point in Murcia of municipal social services in 1981, and since then there have been many advances in both policies and resources and The techniques have been achieved, always in close coordination with the regional administration and with the collaboration, increasingly intense and effective, of the many entities of the third sector that have children as the object of their work.
In addition, the City Council has 3 teams of professionals (one for each municipal social services center) who work to ensure a more systematic and intensive attention to cases of child unprotected in our municipality with moderate risk.
These teams are made up of a psychologist, a legal counselor, a social work graduate and a social educator.
"The work of the Mobile Emergency Social Care Service (SEMAS), the adhesion by the City of Murcia to the Council of Europe campaign promoted by FAMPI to prevent sexual violence against children and the approval of the Program Municipal Children and Adolescents, among others, are examples that show the commitment to fight against this problem2, has enumerated Ruiz Caballero.
In addition, just a few days ago Murcia has been recognized by UNICEF as a "city that is child friendly", a fact, said the councilor "still forces us more decisively to put more emphasis on everything relating to social policies than on Matters of childhood are developed in our municipality. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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