Training for Lawyers
Helen Stalford and Sarah Woodhouse
Children's Rights Training for Lawyers
ECRU, in collaboration with Liverpool Law Clinic, have developed a comprehensive online training tool to enable lawyers to work more effectively on children’s cases. The training is based on in-depth observation of lawyers working on a range of children’s cases relating to immigration, asylum, criminal justice, child protection and parental separation. It is also informed by children’s accounts of their own experiences of going through legal proceedings.
The project was funded by the European Commission and involved working in partnership with a range of civil society organisations and lawyers, including Save the Children, JustforKids Law, Coram Children’s Legal Centre, and the Project for the Registration of Children as British Nationals. It includes practical tips, exercises, tools and honest reflections by lawyers and young people about how to apply children’s rights methods and principles to all stages of the legal process.
The online training is complemented by bespoke face-to-face training for law firms and chambers and includes additional guidance on how to use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in legal arguments. For further information about this training please contact Helen Stalford (stalford@liverpool.ac.uk).
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