Caring. Open Child and Youth Work
The IB’s highest priority in the open child and youth work is the compliance with international guidelines with regards to the protection of children and youth.
The IB follows the demand of the UN Children’s Rights Convention that every child has the opportunity for a healthy physical, spiritual, moral, emotional and social development that occurs naturally and in freedom and dignity.
As a performance segment of youth work and welfare services open children and youth work marks a significant area of out-of-school socialization. Its pedagogical, cultural and political assignment and its reference to the social environment provide a great enrichment to leisure time activities for children and youth. It is focussed on children, youth and young adults who want to determine their leisure time creatively and independently. The children, youth and young adults who use the IB’s facilities are in an important phase of their life. Open children and youth work as an informal educational entity exceeds the exclusive transfer of knowledge and information by promoting the achievement of key (personal, social and methodological) competences.
In accordance with our mission statement the goal of the IB is to help children to develop freely, live a self-determined life, integrate into society, to take personal responsibility and actively participate in the development of society. Protection and security of children and youth in care are a matter of course. Legal requirements and regulations form the basis of this work.
Every institution holds a copy of an action plan to follow in the case of suspected vulnerability in children or youth. Furthermore the guidelines for protection of children and youth apply to all areas of the IB group in its work with children and youth.