Recht Kinderen van de Staat

Founded in 2023, Recht Kinderen van de Staat is a charity based in Baarn, Netherlands working on children & youth, human rights, justice & legal aid.

Stichting Recht Kinderen van de Staat is a Dutch charitable foundation with ANBI status, established on 4 September 2023. It works to protect the rights of children and of parents and carers involved in youth care (jeugdzorg) in the Netherlands. The foundation funds and supports strategic legal proceedings brought by specialist lawyers against the state, municipalities and care organisations, including cases against decision-free working by municipalities and the meldbriefprocedure used by juvenile courts. It also researches and publishes on the youth care system, through the Kinderen van de Staat book series and an English translation, Wards of State, and organises conferences and press activity to inform professionals, policymakers and parents. Its board is unpaid and it has no staff, working mainly with volunteers. Donations are used for its stated purposes and it holds a Raad van Advies of sector partners.