"Justice - child friendly"

Тhe trainings of "Integrated approach for fair justice inb the best interest of the child", part of the project "Justice befriends the child" completed. Each was preceded by a press conference with representatives of local institutions - municipalities, district administrations, district prosecutor's offices, District Court, District Police Directorate.

In common, the injured children are interrogated repeatedly which causes them stress. The changes that Directive 2012/29 / EC requires can be oriented around the needs of the victim, not only to punish the perpetrator. The main point of the reform is to eliminate the "fragmented" work of institutions and will provide support to the victim at any time, respectively the interrogations will be kept to a minimum and will be led by trained specialist in a protected room - "blue room". So far Bulgaria has already have 15 places like that and their number grows.

Specialists in the social sphere shared their experiences using "hearing room" and the press conference in Sofia was announced statistics of this service presented by Sofia Police Directorate and the Supreme Cassation Prosecution.

Specialists in the social sphere shared their experiences using "hearing room" and the last press conference in Sofia was announced statistics from CDI children passed through it, and the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor's Office about the number of victims of crime - the first 9 months of 2016 in Sofia victims are minors 1167 and juveniles - 1916.

1149 professionals have passed through two days of training in total 28 regions in the country - judges, prosecutors, police officers, social workers and psychologists from the child protection system and the system of social services; doctors - pediatricians, general practitioners, forensic doctors; municipal officials and lawyers.

In trainings after the press conferences were presented best practices accumulated in the country within the previous European and national initiatives and thus support the implementation of the requirements of Article 22, 25 and 26 of the Directive.

The number of decision makers - representatives and experts from ministries - MJ, MI, MH, MLSP, SACP, ASA, and Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation (SPOC) is 65.

The training resulted in increasing the capacity of the professional community to identify and support victims and to make more effective cooperation and coordination in safeguarding the rights and access to services and support to victims of crime.

As a result, build effective multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional network for coordination and cooperation (cooperation) to act on local, regional and national level for the protection of crime victims children and adults, to which will be attached a new model of work and support by Justice.

The project is implemented under contract JUST / 2014 / JACC / AG / VICT / 7465 with the financial support of the "Rights, equality and citizenship" programe of EU