26 March 2025 🗓️ TRAINING: Toolkit for interagency case management
Time: 10:00 to 13:00 CET
About: This training introduces a comprehensive guide for Barnahus seeking to implement interagency case management effectively. Join this training to gain insights into establishing formal procedures, conducting child-centred case planning, and maintaining continuous case reviews — all while ensuring the child’s voice remains central throughout the process. The training is presented by the author of the toolkit, Emma Harewood.
The forthcoming toolkit will be published here as soon as final touches are ready. Read it to get acquainted with practical tools, case examples, and clear frameworks provide actionable guidance for improving interagency collaboration, reducing (re)traumatisation, and promoting more effective support for child victims.
Format: During the training you will explore the four chapters in the toolkit and be invited to consider how your Barnahus service is meeting the standards against a helpful checklist. You’ll have an opportunity to discuss these topics in small groups, and to network with your colleagues from around Europe.
Who can attend: This training is for Barnahus network members.
Cost: Free for Network Members and Associate Members
— April 2025 🗓️ TRAINING: Child protection tools and protocols
With Linda Jonsson and Anette Birgerson. Stay tuned …
Cost: Free for Network Members and Associate Members
29 April 2025 🗓️ TRAINING: Forensic interviews in cases of online sexual violence
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 CET
With Julia Korkman of Heuni, and colleagues. Stay tuned …
Cost: Free for Network Members and Associate Members
6 May 2025 🗓️ An introduction to EU law and policy in the area of multidisciplinary interventions for child victims and witnesses of violence in child protection
Time: 10:00 to 15:00
Presented by Rebecca O’Donnell and Child Circle. Stay tuned …
Cost: Free for Network Members and Associate Members
12-13 June 2025 🗓️ BARNAHUS FORUM in Tallinn, Estonia
12 June – 9:30 to 17:00
13 June – 9:30 to lunch
Agenda and details forthcoming …
13 June 2025 🗓️ General Assembly of the Barnahus Network in Tallinn, Estonia (hybrid)
The General Assembly will meet for the first time on the sidelines of the Barnahus Forum. Members will adopt the usual operational documents of the Network, and will elect a new steering group.
Time TBD, but likely afternoon of 13 June 2025.
A possibility for members to listen in and vote from a distance will be provided for any members who are not able to join in person.
Forthcoming …
💡 Information session on the network project looking at remote and pre-recorded hearings with children
An information session will be arranged to go more into detail about the planned activities below, and to get initial feedback and ideas about elements to cover and resources to look into. You can read briefly about the full project here. The Barnahus Network is developing:
| Desk Research | Conduct desk research to summarise best practices in video recorded child interviews, focusing on child victims, witnesses, and suspects. 3+ pages. |
| Legal Summary | Create a summary of international and national legal obligations related to video recording child interviews, emphasising procedural safeguards. 3+ pages. |
| Protocol for Child Suspects | Develop protocol and guidance for interviewing child suspects, focusing on fair trial and due process safeguards. To be translated into partner languages. 15+ pages. |
| Lawyer Guidance | Provide structured guidance for lawyers on procedural safeguards to protect child victims and suspects. 10+ pages. |
| Remote Hearing Ground Rules | Develop best practice recommendations for remote court hearings involving children, focusing on safeguarding and trauma prevention. 2+ pages. |
Cost: Free for Network Members and Associate Members
💬 Webinar on the White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law
The White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law was published last year and provides seminal guidance on key questions around the preparation and execution of investigative interviews with children. It consists of evidence-based recommendations. It was jointly drafted by researchers in child interviewing active within the European Association of Psychology and Law. The recommendations are focused on cases in which children are interviewed in forensic settings, in particular within investigations of child sexual and/or physical abuse. One purpose of the white paper is to assist the growing Barnahus movement in Europe to develop investigative practise that is science-based.
A forthcoming webinar with select authors will welcome Barnahus Network Members to learn more about what each of the recommendations are and discuss how the recommendations can be applied both in your practice and in general in the Barnahus Network.
Cost: Free for Network Members and Associate Members
👁️ TRAINING on EMDR Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy
Dates: Planned for October 2025
Cost: TBD, will be at full cost with invites first to network members and associate members. Approximate cost is 1,800 EUR per person for the core training, with supervision and interpretation (if relevant) at an additional cost.
By popular demand, coming soon…
Upcoming trainings
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