POLICY & LAW

POLICY & LAW

Integration of child mental health concerns into legal and judicial practices to enable child-friendly, child-centric legislation and judicial processes in contexts such as child sexual abuse, juvenile justice and child custody.

• Integrating child protection and mental health issues into legal and judicial systems and processes across the country.
• Contributing to judicial education in the area of child and law, by providing depth perspectives on child mental health and well-being, and skills and methods of engagement with children in legal contexts.
• Building the capacity of other quasi-judicial bodies (such as child welfare committees) and juvenile justice boards, by providing knowledge on conceptual and implementation aspects of various child-related laws in the country.
• Research to address questions issues of child mental health, protection, law, and policy, through methods of intersectionality.

Who We Work With?

Ranging from judicial education to deliberations, we reach out to judicial officers through State High Courts and Judicial Academies, to engage them in discussions and judicial education initiatives on issues of child sexual abuse, child custody and juvenile justice. We also work with quasi-judicial bodies such as members of the Child Welfare Committees and Juvenile justice Boards, and child protection functionaries, to skill them in the application of relevant child laws to ensure that decisions are made in the safety and best interests of the child.