DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide This also provides guidance on proper criteria for the recruitment and supervision of monitors having contact with children deprived of their liberty; appropriate training provided to monitors on how to work with and interview different age groups of children; moreover, training on safe storage of children’s personal information including records of allegations of abuse. Each person that will perform a monitoring visit in a facility where children are deprived of their liberty must be required to sign a Child Protection Policy. See – Annex 3. – p.160 H. INFORMATION ABOUT AND COMMUNICATION / COOPERATION WITH OTHER VISITING BODIES When several monitoring bodies are operating in the same place of deprivation of liberty or have the same mandate in relation to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s rights, it is of the highest importance that they establish ways of communication and cooperation. Degrees of collaboration may vary from a simple exchange of information on their monitoring programmes, methods or findings, to complementary visits, cooperation on specific issues or even partnership. The more the collaboration is developed, the more efficient the monitoring process will be. However, the degree of cooperation does not only rely on the willingness of the monitoring bodies but also on the available human and financial resources and sometimes on institutional constraints or specifications of the mandate. At the international level, the coordination between the SPT and existing regional visiting mechanisms (mainly the CPT) is foreseen in the OPCAT, Article 31, which encourages them “to consult and cooperate with a view to avoid duplication”. Where the reports are kept confidential, they should at least consult and when they are made public, consultation and cooperation with the SPT is easier. The CPT is also promoting synergies and exchanges of knowledge and best practices with NPMs with the aim to “support and inspire each other”. In practice, they collaborate actively at the different stages of the monitoring process (before, during and after) of the CPT 6. 6  For further details on the “Relations between the CPT and NPMs” see the 22nd CPT General Report (2011-2012), pp. 13 to 19. 58