our projects
Child Circle participates in European projects which connect partners across countries and build regional resources. These projects deliver guidance and tools for professionals in their day-to-day work, alongside policy analysis and recommendations which support national and European policymakers in learning from the experience of frontline professionals.
Recent projects focus on child victims and witnesses of violence and children suspected or accused of crime, children in migration including children who seek asylum or have been trafficked and children who are separated or at risk of separation from their parents.
Children in Criminal Proceedings
PROMISE
The Promise projects involve promoting multidisciplinary and interagency services for child victims and witnesses of violence, in particular through promoting and supporting the Barnahus model throughout Europe. The projects help fulfil the EU measures on child sexual abuse and victims’ rights.
Focus
Working Together for Children in Criminal Proceedings: the project’s main objective is to ensure that children in contact with the law, as victims and suspects or accused, benefit from individual assessments of their needs as required under EU measures on child sexual abuse and victims’ rights, as well as EU measures on procedural safeguards for children who are suspects or accused of crime.
My Lawyer My Rights
A project focussing on promoting access to, and the assistance, of a lawyer for children in criminal proceedings in line with the EU measures on procedural safeguards for children who are suspects or accused of crime.
Children in Migration
Advancing the Protection of Unaccompanied Children in Europe
KIND European Initiative is helping unaccompanied children in Europe access free legal assistance. Child Circle’s work focuses on recommendations for EU action under the EU migration and asylum measures.
The European Child Rights Helpdesk
The European Child Rights Helpdesk brings together non-governmental organisations providing legal information and assistance to children on the move in seven different countries in the European Union (EU), ranging across countries of entry, transit and destination for children and their families. Child Circle’s contribution to the Helpdesk focuses on producing recommendations for EU action under EU migration and asylum measures.
Initiative on Children in Migration
The Initiative for Children in Migration is an informal collaboration among close to 100 NGOs and IGOs across Europe who are involved in coordinated advocacy on EU law and policy impacting children in migration. Child Circle is a focal point of the Initiative and has received funding in partnership with Missing Children Europe and PICUM to develop resources to support advocacy focussing on EU migration and asylum measures.
ProGuard
A project focussing on strengthening guardianship for unaccompanied children and on piloting a European system for assessing national guardianship systems.
SUMMIT
A project focussing on safeguarding unaccompanied migrant children from going missing by identifying best practices and training actors on interagency cooperation.
Separated Children in Judicial Proceedings
A project focussing on capacity building to promote child-centred judicial proceedings, decisions and outcomes in cases involving children who are separated, or at risk of being separated from their parents