MONITORING MECHANISMS OF PLACES WHERE CHILDREN ARE DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERTY
ʺʺ Regime applied in the place of deprivation of liberty and the fulfilment of the purpose
of the deprivation of liberty (education, rehabilitation, reintegration into society) as
well as the continuity of the assistance after release;
ʺʺ Access to education, vocational training, work, physical activities, leisure and
recreation;
ʺʺ Access to medical / health care and appropriate social, psychological and/or psychiatric
support;
ʺʺ Separation from adults and between children themselves;
ʺʺ Recruitment, selection, composition, qualification, conduct, initial and on-going training
of the staff members and directors of the facility in child issues;
ʺʺ Contacts with the family, the outside world and access to legal assistance and lawyer;
ʺʺ Protection measures including the right and access to defence and assistance as well
as to complain and the importance of the record;
ʺʺ Safety of children, including the interaction between staff and children, and between
children;
ʺʺ Specific measures and equal treatment of girls and other groups of children particularly
at risk.
A complete and detailed list of all child specific indicators that monitors shall consider
while performing their visit can be found in Section 5 which takes into account the
full breadth of international and regional standards. The relevance of the local context
should also be looked at when devising criteria appropriate to their context but
local criteria should never be lower than those outlined in international standards.
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