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The IDEA project is an international training project for child protection professionals on children’s rights funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. The project has a special focus on professionals in child welfare removals proceedings in courts or court-like bodies.
The project is coordinated by University College Cork (Ireland) with partners from the University of Tampere (Finland), University of Szeged (Hungary), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and University of Tartu (Estonia). The project runs from February 2017 - January 2019.
Co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union.
The SPARK tool is a self-reflective evaluation tool for practitioners working in child protection, supporting them to develop a tailored self-care plan. While this tool was designed for practitioners and services in child welfare and protection, the tool could also be used in other sectors.
If you are litigating a children’s rights issue in the national courts, and your case is unsuccessful, you may wish to pursue a remedy under the European Convention on Human Rights or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child individual complaints procedure (Optional Protocol 3). However, most claims are declared inadmissible as a result of decisions made during the domestic phase of litigation.1 This checklist is designed to help you avoid that eventuality.
This tool is a quick reference guide for practitioners working in child protection in Ireland seeking to use international law in advocating for children’s rights in domestic courts. More specifically, it provides an overview of children’s rights sources which can be drawn upon to argue for the participation of children in care in court proceedings. Utilising these sources of law can also bolster submissions in court, thereby improving decisions for children.
This document provides summaries of judgments delivered by the European Court of Human Rights concerning the right to contact with children in care. It aims to assist child protection practitioners to utilise this case law in advocating for this right in domestic courts. The judgments focus on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
