CHILD SPECIFIC INDICATORS OF VISIT 5.4. Order and Discipline A. DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES AND REGISTERS Is the framework of disciplinary measures strictly, clearly and precisely regulated? Does it take full account of the fundamental characteristics, needs and rights of children? ASK: Director | Staff | Children OBSERVE: ʺʺ Brochures, leaflets providing information in a child-friendly language about conducts constituting a disciplinary offence, type and duration of sanctions, competent authority CHECK: ʺʺ Disciplinary measures/sanctions see whether it is clearly provided by the internal rules of the visited establishment/institution including the object and purpose of each disciplinary measure/sanction; see whether the procedure complies with the international and regional standards and legal framework applicable in the context of deprivation of liberty of children (consistent with the dignity of the child, his/her best interest and his/her fundamental rights, last resort measure, taken for the shortest appropriate period of time ʺʺ Register of disciplinary measures/sanctions, see the reasons, the measures taken with regards to the principles of necessity and proportionality, the duration, the frequency, who is asking for these measures and who is authorising them ʺʺ Register of incidents, see whether any incident finds any link with disciplinary measures/ sanctions ʺʺ Register of solitary confinement and isolation room, see whether any link can be made between the decision to put a child in solitary confinement and a disciplinary measures/ sanctions taken against him/her ʺʺ Register of complaints, see whether the child had lodged any (formal or informal) complaint about the disciplinary measures/sanctions ʺʺ Information, see whether the internal rules of the facility are provided and explained to children; see whether children have understood them Specific groups: Foreign nationals children CHECK: ʺʺ Interpretation, see whether these children have access to interpretation to understand the internal rules of the facility including the object and purpose of each disciplinary measure/sanction 113 5