This OECD Roundtable Workshop was hosted in collaboration with the OECD, the Department of Justice, Canada and the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures, as lead of the Global Working Group on Justice for Children.

The Workshop focused on supporting governments to ensure children have equal access to justice, free from structural inequalities, discrimination and exclusion. It emphasised the practical steps to achieve equal access to child-friendly justice, including an in-depth look at mechanisms for embedding child-centred considerations into policy development processes. The session created a safe space to share challenges, promising practices, and lessons learned from the design and implementation of promising approaches. It considered the embedding of a children’s rights lens to equal access to justice for children and focused on situations where children from different cultural and marginalised communities are overrepresented in child welfare and justice systems.

The full recap of this Workshop and Summary Report are available here.