2.2 Consultations with Children A children’s rights-based approach was used by the research team to inform the research methodology.8 Researchers worked with a group of children from Ireland with experience of deprivation of liberty who advised on the content and scope of the consultation questions. A ‘Facilitators’ Pack’ was then developed, setting out the approaches to be used to recruit children and to gather their views safely and ethically, individually or in groups, through face-to-face interviews. Terre des Hommes teams and a number of other organisations and institutions (‘the partners’) who work with children in detention settings carried out the consultations. Designing a Research Methodology for Consultations with Children CONSULTATIONS WITH CHILDREN PREPARATION OF INTERVIEWS WORLDWIDE INFORMING GLOBAL STUDY GL OB AL ST UD Y DESIGNING TOOLS CHILDREN WITH EXPERIENCE OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY EXPERTS A group of children with experience of deprivation of liberty was consulted by experts to advise them on the content and scope of the consultation questions FACILITATORS’ PACK Experts designed a facilitators’ pack used to consult children and to gather their views (safely and ethically, individually or in groups) through face-to-face interviews INTERVIEWS Partner organisations and institutions were asked to consult participants, ideally aged 13-17 years, who were deprived of liberty in their respective countries GLOBAL STUDY In total, the views of 274 children from 22 countries were gathered and incorporated into the Global Study 8 Laura Lundy & Lesley McEvoy, ‘Children’s rights and research processes: assisting children to (in)formed views’, Vol.19(1), Childhood, 2012, pp. 129-144. 83