Ommej lectured at Children's Rights Days 2026 about children's own voices, early signals and what becomes visible when children themselves are allowed to describe their situation.
On April 14–15, Ommej participated in the Children's Rights Days 2026 in Karlstad. This year's theme was "The step forward - working together in prevention and promotion", with a focus on how society can work more preventively and promote for the best interests of the child.
During the days, we lectured on insights from the Ommej report 2026 in the seminar "Children's voices reveal the gap - insights from 3,000 children in Ommej".
The starting point was simple but important: what becomes visible when children themselves are allowed to describe their situation?
One of the clearest conclusions is that children's difficulties can rarely be understood in isolation. School, well-being, security, finances, violence, relationships and support are often interconnected. When the adult world only sees part of the child's situation, we therefore risk missing the whole.
In the lecture, we highlighted, among other things, how school is often a place where early signals first become visible. This may be about children who are unable to cope, do not dare to speak up, do not feel involved or do not feel that they are receiving the right support. But the signals need to be understood in context.
For us, Children's Rights Days were a strong reminder of why children's own voices need to be given greater importance in the development of schools, social services, health care and other activities that meet children. Working preventively is not just about implementing interventions earlier. It is also about understanding earlier. Seeing patterns before problems have grown larger. And creating structures where children do not have to adapt to our operational boundaries, but where the activities can better collaborate based on the child's entire life situation.
Download the report here