Online Workshop: Individual Assessment of Children in Criminal Proceedings: in search of best practices

Please find the event recordings at this link.

About the interactive online workshop:

The event focused on good practices in individual assessment in the Netherlands, and topics related to expert cooperation in carrying out and using individual assessments of suspected or accused children in criminal proceedings. The event included expert presentations regarding national experiences and initiatives implementing individual assessments. The presentations were followed by interactive coffee breaks and a final discussion.

The seminar featured such prominent speakers as Dr Stephanie Rap of Leiden University Law School; June De Groot of Defence for Children International, the Netherlands; and Gabriella Gallizia of Defence for Children International, Italia.

The EU co-funded project, 'Procedural safeguards of accused or suspected children: improving the implementation of the right to individual assessment' (IA-CHILD) team aims to bring more clarity to the matters of individual assessment in the professional community. The team, consists of partners from Lithuania (Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences), Croatia (the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences of the University of Zagreb), Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Cyprus (HFC Hope for Children Policy Center).