Council Of Europe Project "Protecting the Rights of Ukrainian Children during and in post-war context” in cooperation with the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and Prosecutor’s training center of Ukraine have conducted the 5^th training  on "Models of effective interagency cooperation in criminal proceedings involving children". The face-to-face training was held during 18-21 March 2024 in Lviv.

The training brought together 25 representatives of the Prosecutor’s office, investigators, juvenile prevention, probation authorities, lawyers of the free legal aid system, penitentiary institutions and places of pre-trial detention, children’s services, guardianship and guardianship bodies, psycho-social support services of children, working in Chernivtsi oblast.

The objective of the training is to develop child-friendly approaches and effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of interagency collaborative response model interaction. This supports the pilot project on the practical implementation of international standards of child-friendly justice, established through a Joint order of The Office of the Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine.

During the four days of the training, participants developed comprehensive interagency standard operating procedure’s involving all relevant actors based on the example of a real case during the pre-trial investigation, at the trial stage, and at the post-trial stage.

• The 6^th training is planned in April 2024 for the team of professionals from Zhytomyr oblasts.