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Each year, the Commissions for the Protection of Children and Youth receive more than 40,000 communications of danger and work, on average, on about 70,000 cases. These are worrying figures that challenge everyone!

To mark the Childhood maltreatment prevention month, the National Commission for the Promotion of the Rights and Protection of Children and Youth (CNPDPCJ), the body that coordinates the 311 CPCJ in the country, annually promotes an awareness-raising campaign to prevent ill-treatment, practices that are very harmful to children, which can leave deep marks on their development. They occur in different contexts and are transversal to all strata of the population, taking many forms: neglect, abandonment, physical and psychological abuse, sexual abuse.

“I'll be what you give me, let it be love”, is the slogan of this campaign, which aims to draw the attention of the community to the urgency of preventing and combating the ill-treatment to which many children are subjected.

The symbol of Prevention Month is a Blue Tie and every year, both the National Commission and the CPCJ form large Human Blue Ties.

This is a campaign that already has a great deal of support: in addition to the CPCJ, the Blue Tie is in schools, health centres, hospitals, associations, commercial establishments, involving people of all ages. Throughout the country, there are buildings and structures illuminated in blue throughout the month, also showing a strong commitment from the municipalities.

For this year's edition, the CNPDPCJ will hold, on April 28, the Blue Tie the Iconic Commerce Square, involving hundreds of students from Lisbon schools wearing blue T-shirts.