The Icelandic model

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The Icelandic model

• Bragi Gudbrandsson, General Director of the
  Government Agency for Child protection in Iceland

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Childrens house, history

• Children get all the services and help they need
  from same place. The house is in one suburb of
  Reykjavik, Iceland.
• This is the livingroom/waiting room for children.

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Videolinkki oikeussaliin
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Videolinkki alakertaan

• Lapsen kuuleminen toimitetaan simultaanisti,
  jolloin läsnä ovat tuomari, syytetty/edust. ja
  muut asianosaiset

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Lapsen kuulemishuone

• Erikoistunut psykologi ( forensic psychologist)
  puhuttaa lasta ja kuuleminen välitetään
  simultaanisti alakertaan ja nauhoitetaan.

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Lasten talo

• Lapset saavat samasta paikasta kaiken
  tarvitsemansa avun/tuen.

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Yhteistyötahot

• State Police (vrt. KRP)
• State Prosecution (vrt. syyttäjä)
• University Hospital (Yliop sairaala)
• departments of pediatrics and child psychiatry
• Directors of Social Services
• CPS in Reykjavik ( lastensuojelu)
• Police Department in Reykjavik

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Lääketieteellinen tutkimus

• Lääkäri tulee taloon kerran viikossa /kkssa
  tarpeen mukaan.

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Videokamera kuulemishuoneessa

• Lapselle kerrotaan kamerasta ja se mistä on
  kysymys.

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Ratkaistavat ongelmat

• Lack of cooperation between the different
  agencies involved CPS, Police, Prosecution,
  Medical profession.
• Lack of an interdisciplinary approach.
• Lack of personell with special training and
  specialization, especially in conducting
  investigative interviews

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Ratkaistavat ongelmat, jatk.

• Absence of appropriate guidelines in work
  practice
• Lack of consideration for the welfare of child
  victim multiple interviews by different
  interviewers in different locations
• Lack of appropriate assessment, treatment and
  support to the child victim and her/his family.

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Lasten talon tehtävät

• to coordinate the role of the CPS, Police, State
  Prosecution, Medical Profession and others
  engaged in the investigation of child sexual
  abuse
• to improve work practices by interdisciplinary
  cooperation of the different agencies involved
• to ensure that the child victim need not be
  subjected to multiple interviews in different
  locations by providing a child friendly setting
  for investigative interviews conducted by a
  specialized interviewer

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Tehtävät, jatk.

• to ensure that the child victim and family
  receives appropriate assessment, treatment and
  support
• to enhance specialized and interdisciplinary
  knowledge on child sexual abuse and mediate that
  knowledge as appropriate