On 5 and 6 October, FRA participated in expert meetings on guidance from EU-funded projects that aim to enhance child protection systems and ensure children’s and young adults’ access to justice.
The two-year-long ENSURE project (Ensuring Access to Intermediaries for Children with Disabilities in Legal Proceedings) is dedicated to improving communication with child victims with disabilities in the criminal justice system by integrating intermediaries, support persons, and special representatives.
It goes hand-in-hand with VOICE, another two-year-long initiative that aims to ensure active and meaningful participation in legal proceedings.
BRIDGE, a one year Erasmus+ project, looks into promising examples of small-scale, community-integrated detention houses and how those principles can be transferred to different national legal systems in EU Member States.