DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide 1.6. How to use this Guide? This Guide has been designed in a way that provides different levels of practical guidance depending on the degree of experience and the level of knowledge of users in child rights; deprivation of liberty of children; monitoring process and methodology. For this purpose, SECTIONS 2 & 3 of the Guide which relate to the context of the deprivation of liberty of children and the monitoring mechanisms are more descriptive and are therefore designed for users who are new to the concept of monitoring children’s deprivation of liberty. SECTION 4 which relates to the monitoring methodology is more practice-oriented and is dedicated to support users before, during and after the monitoring process to improve their methods in relation to children and their specific requirements. Pictogram’s will help users to identify child specific aspects in particular for preparing, implementing and following up the monitoring process. SECTION 5 includes all the most important standards applying to the deprivation of liberty of children and child specific indicators, detailing the benchmarks to be used by monitors during the monitoring process; identifying the people to be interviewed; indicating the places to look at in particular; the documents and registers to be consulted; what kind of questions should be asked and which specific aspects to pay particular attention to depending on the kind of establishment concerned and the different groups of children deprived of their liberty within these places. SECTION 6 is dedicated to the complaint mechanisms as one of the particular aspects monitoring bodies should look at when performing visits in order to guarantee the effectiveness, accessibility and efficiency of the rights of children to be heard, to participate and to complain. Finally, users will find – at the end of the Guide – a simplified version of the CRC (ANNEX 1), useful tools including sample policies and guidance (Ethical Guidelines – ANNEX 2, Child Protection Policy – ANNEX 3) and the alphabetical list of relevant decisions of the ECtHR (ANNEX 4). The last section avec the Guide (SECTION 7) refers to our website where relevant information, further readings and useful materials and documentation are referenced. Child specific aspect Quote Question 22 Important information