The European Commission-funded study on _*‘Typology and Policy Responses to Child Begging in the EU’_, completed in December 2012, underlines the need for a coordinated and concerted effort in the *European Union to address a situation that poses grave dangers for the health and proper development of a very disadvantaged, and often also stigmatised, group of children. The report presents research conducted in 15 European countries and a total of 30 European cities, approaching child begging at a national and local level from a child rights perspective, taking into account the need to punish exploiters and traffickers and to involve families in finding solutions to this violation of human dignity. The report focuses on various aspects of the child begging phenomenon, its characteristics, how it is legislated for and what responses are in place, aiming to sketch out the situation in countries under study, including any recent changes. While data is available to show that child begging is, or has been, an issue in all of the countries under study, its magnitude and characteristics vary widely in the fifteen countries, as will be shown in this Report. The research is complemented by the comparative study of local case studies carried out in cities in the fifteen countries and the Typology of child begging.

 

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