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The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG)

Working at a political and practical level to ensure that UN minimum standards for the care of children are implemented across the whole of Europe and beyond.

The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG) was founded in 2005 by author JK Rowling and MEP Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne. Its aim is to improve the welfare of vulnerable children across Europe, operating both politically and practically to build capacity at a country level.

Many European countries still do not meet common minimum United Nations standards of child care and protection. A principal goal of the CHLG is to ensure that these standards are adopted across the whole of Europe, both by countries that are members of the European Union and those that are not.

CHLG activities focus on health, education and welfare.   

As well as deploying teams to work on the ground, CHLG works closely with governments and officials on wider policy issues such as de-institutionalisation and child welfare. It also works proactively to promote the positive changes in child welfare that are now taking place.

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The CHLG also runs the Children’s Voice campaign, a public-facing campaign that aims to make life better for young people in care, across Eastern Europe and ultimately across the whole of the modern world. It aims to inspire the public to help change the lives of children throughout Europe through fundraising and public opinion.

Find out more about The Children’s Voice campaign