José Manuel Franco sifts through these in his progress of Mexico España with respect to child protection in sport

• The secretary of State is leading the delegation of the supreme council for sports has travelled to the mexican capital to participate in the conference on policies and plans for the protection of children and adolescents in sport

• In the meeting, which includes representatives of the governments of Chile and Uruguay, desgranarán initiatives of the CSD as antiabusos protocols, the efforts of the programme of support for the Deportista (PROAD) or the program I-Protect

Madrid, 27 of september 2022. The president of the supreme council for sports (CSD), José Manuel Franco, participates in mexico city in theJornadas on Policies and Planes of The protection of children and adolescents in sport, organized by the commission of the house of representatives of mexico and the Mexican Olympic Committee, in collaboration with the CSD.

The meeting, which will be developed between today and tomorrow, are aimed at pooling developments in policies, strategies and tools for the protection of children in the field of sport that have implemented Mexico, spain, Chile and Uruguay, participating countries in the meeting, in addition to other international agencies with competence in this area, such as un women or UNICEF.

In its presentation - wednesday, at 17:15h spanish time, José Manuel Franco will be placed on the prevention of violence against children and girls as a strategy of state, by stressing the importance of work for sport as a safe area and by going through the Recent government initiatives in this regard, notably the Organic Law of The Comprehensive Protection for children and adolescents from violence and the new sports act currently in parliamentary procedure.

“ In the happiness of a child and child summarizes all their other rights. And that happiness can be reached, and, through sport ”, notes the secretary of State. “ The protection of children is undoubtedly the largest and best investment we can do for the present and future of our society ”.

In addition to the statement by the chairman, on the part of the supreme council for sports will involve Belén Lara, head of international projects and cooperation; Bárbara Fuertes, assistant director and sport - Mujer desgranará antiabusos protocols in sport; Diego Barrio, director of the programme of support for the Minor and Deportista Deportista (PROAD); Manuel Ramos, chairman of the foundation's projects Young Sport, setting out the draft - 253 PROTECT; and Lucía Santiago executive advises the president of the CSD.

The meeting is divided into a technical workshop, on tuesday and workshop, political, on wednesday. Apart from the representatives of the CSD will Mario garcía de la Torre, secretary-general of the Mexican Olympic Committee; María José Alcalá, deputy chairperson of the commission on Sport and president of the Mexican Olympic Committee; Carlos Fiordelmondo, coordinator of the area of Sport and education of the national secretariat for Sports of Uruguay; Loreto Fuenzalida, adviser to the ministry of Sports of Chile; David Ulises, academic UNAM; Sergi Atienza, responsible for Compliance of the FC Barcelona; Elda Moreno, international consultant and exjefa human Rights of the council of Europe; Lucía Losoviz, director-general of the rights of children and Adolescents of the ministry of social rights and Agenda 2030; and Jorge Castro, president ofFayr Play.