The priority of every state considering its future must be oriented towards the children and the youth. Currently, the topic of the Child as our main value, is frequently analyzed both in Lithuania and internationally, although not infrequently this is done just to be fashionable or during the election campaigns. It has to be admitted that the children rights violations, violence and crime are encouraged by the declining cultural, spiritual and, especially, moral values of the society, even though the tomorrow of our state is dependant on the today’s investments in the concrete and, most importantly, practical programs encouraging our children to start meaningful participation in the creative work of our land, to learn how to live in harmony with their family and friends, to create and beautify their living environment. Therefore, our foremost attention and care should be devoted to those who are unsafe within their families, who do not have the necessary care and supervision, who are forced to spend most of their time on the street mastering its painful lessons. After the declaration of Independence Restoration Act in 1990, the legal, social and economic reform regarding Children Rights Protection was started in Lithuania. The main tasks of policy execution of the children rights protection fall on the Children Rights Protection Services. It appears that on the theoretical and political level there is no lack of attention towards the children rights protection institutions... [to full text]

Magistro darbe analizuojama vaiko teisių apsaugos specialistų teisinių kompetencijų raiška. Darbe aptariami vaiko teisių apsaugos specialistams keliami reikalavimai ir šių specialistų funkcijos, kompetencijos, reikalingos darbui vaiko teisių apsaugos skyriuje (VTAT), analizuojama teisinių kompetencijų raiška vaiko teisių apsaugos specialistų darbe. Temos aktualumui ir naujumui pagrįsti atliktas tyrimas, apklausta 30 įvairių miestų ir rajonų savivaldybių VTAT dirbančių vyresniųjų specialistų ir 30 vedėjų bei 3 ekspertai. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad VTAT dirba vos 8 proc. teisininko kvalifikaciją turinčių specialistų. Darbuotojams trūksta teisinių kompetencijų ir gebėjimų tiek įgyvendinant vaiko teisių apsaugą, organizuojant prevencinę veiklą vaiko teisių apsaugos klausimais, tiek ir koordinuojant suinteresuotų asmenų bei institucijų veiklą, atstovaujant vaiką teismuose. Ekspertų požiūriu, situacija pagerėtų, jei tarnybose dirbtų specialistų, turinčių teisinį išsilavinimą. / In the master‘s work one analyzes the expression of legal competences of children rights protection specialists. In the work one discusses the tasks that are raised for children rights protection specialists and functions, competences of these specialists that are necessary for work in children rights protection department (VTAT), analyses the expression of legal competence in the work of children rights protections specialists. To reason the relevance and novelty of the topic a research was carried out, VTAT senior specialists, 30 leaders and 3 experts of 30 different municipalities of towns and regions were questioned. Results of the researched showed that just 8% of specialists working in VTAT have legal qualifications. Employees lack legal competences and abilities implementing the safety of children rights, organizing preventive work based on children rights protection questions, coordinating the activities of interested persons and institutions and representing children in courts. According to experts, the situation would improve if specialists with legal education would work in these institutions.