DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION The different monitoring mechanisms for visiting places where children are deprived of their liberty should at the minimum communicate and for best practice, cooperate with each other and with key actors. They should share information and findings by publishing their reports and making them available to other national, regional and international monitoring bodies, to key authorities (administration, Ministries, parliamentarians, etc.), to civil society groups and sometimes, where it is appropriate and with a particular attention to the content, to the media. Monitoring bodies that are intending to visit the same places should be informed of the respective planning of visits and should conduct their visit in a complementary manner (avoiding unnecessary duplication), completing the findings already gathered from its own perspective and insights, ensuring a follow up of specific issues or concerns. In addition, they should consider, in some cases, to conduct joint visits. As regards to monitoring bodies that are operating on the basis of confidentiality, where the sharing of findings and outcomes is impossible, the other monitoring bodies should as a minimum requirement do their best to avoid overlap or duplication. 36