New Policy Brief! Closing the Child Justice Data Gap
We’re delighted to launch a new Policy Brief - Closing the Child Justice Data Gap: Incorporating Child-Centred Methodologies in Justice Needs Surveys.
This Policy Brief is co-authored by the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures, on behalf of the Global Working Group on Justice for Children, and the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL).
It explores how to collect child-centred data in practice, providing justice sector practitioners, researchers, and policymakers with actionable methodological insights to safely and rigorously collect data to measure children’s justice needs.
This Policy Brief serves as a direct follow-on the Justice for Children Policy Brief: Evidence and Data, published by the Global Working Group on Justice for Children in 2024.
The Evidence & Data brief established a clear, urgent consensus: children are virtually invisible in global justice data, and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 requires a shift toward child-centred data collection. This current policy brief is designed to operationalise the recommendations set out in 2024.
