Abstract
This paper aims to know how the Network for the protection of the rights of children and adolescents has been constituted based on the practices of social actors. Ten social actors working in the Network for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents participated in the study in a medium-sized city in the north of Tocantins. We chose a qualitative approach, data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and analyzed using Bardin’s Content Analysis. The speeches of the social actors reveal a destructured Network marked by a lack of articulation between the institutions that make it up, as well as a lack of training and knowledge, including in terms of legal aspects, by social workers. Despite the progress in legislation, the rights provided by law do not sufficiently protect children and adolescents, because the practices performed by institutions and social actors do neither take into account the specific condition of development, nor the principle of human dignity, given the fact that these practices are based on hygienist paradigms that are used as control mechanisms, to the detriment of the Integral Protection policy.
Network; Childhood and Adolescence; Protection of Rights