Children's Commission of the German Bundestag

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The Children's Commission of the German Bundestag ( KiKo ) is an institutional working group of the Bundestag committee for families, senior citizens, women and youth , which has existed since 1988, specifically for issues relating to child policy.

tasks

Contrary to what the name suggests, this working group, made up of individual members of all parliamentary groups and their employees, claims to be the highest parliamentary and extra-parliamentary interest group for children and young people. We are talking about a watchman's office. All voting members of this subcommittee are also represented in the Bundestag committee that controls the ministry of the same name.

At the beginning of each new legislative period , the KiKo members agree on a work program and a division of tasks according to topic.

The KiKo organizes public hearings and non-public expert discussions on child policy issues. The principle of consensus has been chosen as a basic definition for joint, coordinated action . If all four persons entitled to vote cannot agree on a common approach, only one initiative remains outside the body.

KiKo expressly declares that it is not responsible for clarifying individual cases, for example in the event of disputes in access law and the like.

Members

18th legislative period (since 2013)
17th legislative period (2009-2013)
16th legislative period (2005-2009)
15th legislative period (2002-2005)
14th legislative period (1998–2002)

prehistory

Before the KiKo was set up, the media public had often called for a child representative of the German Bundestag to be the contact person for child matters. In response to this, each parliamentary group represented in the Bundestag named its own child representative. In meetings on April 21 and May 5, 1988, the Council of Elders of the German Bundestag decided to set up the parliamentary parliamentary commissioners for children as the official commission for children. In official German it is called a little more unwieldy, and also formulated the Commission for the Perception of the Issues of Children . In everyday life, almost everyone involved in it says KiKo when it is mentioned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of the Children's Commission, 18th legislative period ( Memento of the original dated August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  2. ^ Members of the Children's Commission, 16th legislative period
  3. ^ Members of the Children's Commission, 15th legislative period
  4. ^ Members of the Children's Commission, 14th legislative period

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