From 15 August, schools, kindergartens, kindergartens, institutions and organisations working with children and young people must have implemented and promulgated standards for the protection of minors. This requirement is a consequence of the entry into force of the the implementation of the provisions, the so-called Kamilk's Act, passed in July 2023 after the tragic death of eight-year-old Kamilka from Częstochowa, who was tortured to death by his stepfather. It introduces, m.in the obligation to implement standards for the protection of minors, i.e. standards of conduct in the event of observing in a child symptoms that may be the result of abuse, whether psychological or physical or sexual abuse.

Therefore, in Ełk, the preparations and Familiarization of children, parents, teachers has already been going on since December 2023, when The first of the trainings took place.

In the Masurian Centre of Excellence Teachers in Ełk were trained by a specialist, in which Headmasters of Ełk schools and kindergartens and teams for implementation Standards.

Such teams were created in every institution, have been involved in exploring the issues and developing, implementing documentation (a kind of procedures for effective response to the suspicion that a child is being abused); training of teachers' councils; familiarizing parents with them and posting the standards in a visible place in the institution and make them available on their websites in a version of the and abridged version intended for minors (graphic versions, pictorial)

The legislator required in Article 22c.  standards introduced in schools or specified in kindergartens:

(1) rules to ensure safe and secure relationship between the minor and the staff of the establishment or the organiser, and in in particular, prohibited conduct towards minors;

2) the rules and procedure for taking intervention in the event of suspected harm or possession of information about the harming a minor;

(3) the procedures and persons responsible for filing notifications on suspicion of committing a crime to the detriment of minor, notifying the guardianship court and, in the case of institutions, persons responsible for initiating the investigations of the the "Blue Card" procedure;

4) rules for review and updating Standards;

5) the scope of competence of the person responsible for preparing the staff of the establishment or the organiser for the application of the standards, the rules for preparing this staff for their application and the method of documenting this activity;

6) rules and methods of making available legal or actual guardians and minors of the standards to be adopted by the familiarity with them and their application;

(7) persons responsible for receiving reports of incidents endangering a minor and providing him or her with support;

8) the method of documentation and the rules storage of disclosed or reported incidents or threatening events the welfare of the minor.

And:

• Requirements concerning safe relations between minors, and in particular the behaviour of Disallowed;
• Policy use electronic devices with access to the Internet;
• Procedure protect children from harmful content and threats on the Internet, and recorded in another form;
• Policy establishing a plan to support a minor after the abuse is revealed.

The standards of protection of minors are set by Procedures that the school cannot ignore

In the event of suspected abuse of child, it is known who and to what extent is to take care of it.

The provisions of the Act oblige not only to prepare and implement standards, but also to issue in a visible place.

They are to be written in an accessible children's language. In kindergartens, they are in the form of pictures.

Domestic violence can take the form of not only physical violence, but also psychological violence (maltreatment of the mental disorders), i.e. the behaviour of a parent or guardian that causes the child to the feeling that it is worthless, bad, unloved, unwanted. A form of maltreatment mental health is:

•        Rejection (verbal and non-verbal, hostile rejection or humiliation);

•        bullying;

•        exploitation/bribery;

•        denial emotional reactions (ignoring the child's needs, not showing positive emotions, lack of emotions in interaction with the child);

•        Isolating (denying the child contact with peers and adults);

•        neglect mental development, science, health, medical care.

Violence is also sexual violence, that is, engaging a child in sexual activity that he or she is not in able to fully understand.

Neglect is also one of the forms of child abuse, consisting of incidental or chronic and the lack of respect for fundamental rights, resulting in the lack of disorders of his health, as well as generating developmental difficulties.