DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide G. RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND WORSHIP Do children have the right to satisfy the needs of religious and/or spiritual life as well as their cultural practice? ASK: Children | Staff | Director OBSERVE: ʺʺ Presence of books or items of religious or spiritual observance CHECK: ʺʺ Existence, schedules and attendance to service ʺʺ Register of visits, see whether a spiritual or philosophical counsellor / representative of any religion of the child’s choice come on a periodic basis to meet the child or is part of the staff ʺʺ Possession of necessary books and/or items of religious or spiritual observance ʺʺ Liberty not to participate in religious services and to freely decline religious education RPJDL 48 | SMR 2, 65 | EPR 29, 35.1, 38.2 | ERJO 87.1-3 132