Interagency cooperation in criminal proceedings involving children: another training held in Ivano-Frankivsk

Judge of the Supreme Court in the Civil Cassation Court Pavlo Parkhomenko once again acted as a trainer at the training “Models of Effective Interagency Cooperation in Criminal Proceedings Involving Children”, which took place from 2 to 5 March 2026 in Ivano-Frankivsk. The judge is one of the co-authors of the course.

The event brought together 25 specialists from Volyn Region: prosecutors, investigators, inquiry officers, representatives of juvenile prevention units, probation authorities, lawyers of the free legal aid system, staff of penitentiary institutions and pre-trial detention facilities, children’s services, guardianship and custodianship authorities, as well as institutions and facilities for the social and psychological rehabilitation of children.

The aim of the trainings is to introduce standards of effective interagency cooperation into practical activities within the framework of the pilot project for the implementation of international standards of child-friendly justice, which is being carried out pursuant to a joint order of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine. The project began in 2023 in six regions of Ukraine, expanded to 12 regions in 2024, and has been implemented throughout the entire territory of Ukraine since 1 July 2025.

The training was organised by the Council of Europe project “Protecting the Rights of Children and Ensuring Child-Friendly Justice in Ukraine” in cooperation with the Office of the Prosecutor General. It is a continuation of the series of trainings conducted within the previous phase of the Council of Europe project “Protecting the Rights of Children during the War and in the Post-War Period in Ukraine”.

Similar trainings were previously held in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr, Dnipro and Uzhhorod.