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With Scotland, Child Protection and Disability Toolkit (2014)
Available at http://withscotland.org/resources/child-protection-and-disability-toolkit (last accessed 18 December 2014).
This is a toolkit that is targeted at service providers. It teaches about the social model of disability and common threats children with disabilities face. The toolkit has PowerPoint presentations, factsheets, cases studies, resource sheets, guidance and quizzes.
UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Cross-Cutting Issues-Juvenile
Justice-Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit, (2006), available at https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/justice-and-prison-reform/Criminal-Justice-Toolkit.html (last accessed 8 October 2014). *
This is a toolkit that provides the tools to analyze a country’s criminal justice system that includes separate sections specifically on access to justice and juvenile justice. The toolkit also looks at policing, custodial detention and treatment of victims and witnesses.
* indicates that the material is available in multiple languages.
Unicef, Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary (2014)
Available at http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/UNICEF_CRE_Toolkit_FINAL_web_version170414.pdf
This is a toolkit on the rights of children designed to be used to teach about UNICEF and the rights of children in school settings.
Irish Mental Health Commission, Headspace toolkit-For Young
People who are Inpatients of Mental Health Services-The 12 Power Tools, (2009), available at http://www.headspaceireland.ie/pdf_files/IMHC%20-%20Headspace%20Power%20Tools.pdf
This toolkit could be useful in helping children and young people in mental health residential services navigate the system, identify and communicate their needs and learn about available means of redress.
Martha Goodwin and Tony Philip-Jones, Bringing Everyone
Together: Tool Kit for Participation, Birmingham City Council, The Children’s Society and DICE (2010). Available at http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=SystemAdmin%2FCFPageLayout&cid=1223292628121&packedargs=website%3D4&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FCFWrapper&rendermode=live
This toolkit is for people who work with children with disabilities and young people. The toolkit is designed to enable such professionals to support the inclusion of young people with disabilities.
The Advocate’s Gateway Toolkits
http://www.theadvocatesgateway.org/toolkits (November 2014). (last accessed 5 January 2015).
This website contains several toolkits that would be useful in issues pertaining to access to justice for children with mental disabilities. The toolkits looks at children participating in judicial proceedings as witnesses, victims and defendants. There are toolkits on communication needs and techniques for children with different types of disabilities or learning difficulties. There are also toolkits on using video links, intermediaries and case management techniques in young and other vulnerable witnesses.