5. CHILD SPECIFIC INDICATORS OF VISIT The child specific indicators of visit are based on and referenced against international and European fundamental rights of children standards. Their specific focus on children takes particularly into account their vulnerability, specific needs and required care due to children deprived of their liberty. They are designed as an assessment tool on the basis of which monitors will be able to evaluate as objectively as possible at any given time and place, how children’s rights deprived of their liberty are respected. The way they are presented is intended to be user friendly for monitors who are supposed to use them as Guidelines throughout the complete cycle of a monitoring process (training, preparing, observing, examining, interviewing, consulting, reporting, drafting and addressing recommendations, following up on report). The standards applying to children deprived of their liberty are phrased as questions monitors should ask themselves while performing their monitoring visits. Several indicators will then help the monitors to collect information, evidence and findings in order to be able to know whether the conditions and treatment of children deprived of liberty comply with the standards or not. People to be interviewed (ASK), specific aspects to observe (OBSERVE) and elements such as registers and records to be checked (CHECK) will be indicated to Guide the users towards the answers to the questions asked while performing the monitoring. The proposed list of indicators is not exhaustive and these should be completed by monitors, depending on their experience, before, during or after their visits. Spaces for note-taking have been designed for this purpose. The flap of the back cover of the Guide includes a reminder of acronyms used to identify the sources of the standards to which reference is made. The jurisprudence of the ECtHR is referenced succinctly (by case and number of decision). See Annex 4 which includes all the decisions quoted, integrally referenced and sorted alphabetically. It is understood that according to the people interviewed to obtain information about a particular element or aspect to be checked, the questions will be formulated in an adapted and appropriate manner. The child’s perspective, his/her perception and feelings should always be taken into account. The information gathered may be cross-checked as explained above. 93 5