Mary at the Nordic Child Protection conference

Today Crown Princess Mary has attended the opening of the Nordic Child Protection Conference at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen. This year's conference is organised by the Danish section and represents various government child protection, educational and research organisations along with similar organisations in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The conference theme is "New times - new children" Praxis - education - research. The Nordic countries have a long tradition of co-operation and exchange of information in the child protection field. The Practice, Education and Research theme aims to ensure an improvement in the wide ranging work with vulnerable children. There will be lectures by specialists in the field and an extensive program of workshops over four days for conference goers.