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April 2022
EPTA News
15th EPTA Annual Conference
As the organizing team is preparing for the upcoming Annual Conference, EPTA members are preparing for their trip to Barcelona. It is exactly a month to go until the registration deadline ends. If you are planning to come to Barcelona for the conference, please make sure to register by 30 May with a maximum two representatives per member. The updated agenda and logistical information is on the event page.
Call for nomination: EPTA Presidency 2023
As an annual tradition, we would like to invite EPTA members to take over the Presidency after the next EPTA Annual Conference for the coming year 2023, and continue working on the project ‘Innovating together: Connecting European Penitentiary Training Academies’. As a holder of the presidency, this is a great opportunity to represent the current developments of the organizing academy and hosting representatives of almost all academies in Europe. 
Cross-border trainings - call for host academies
As part of the EPTA II project, we would like to invite Training Academies to participate in hosting a Cross-Border Training. NHC and the EPTA Steering Committee will be facilitating three in-person cross-border trainings for 13 participants each. During these trainings, three host academy will be organizing one training each for participants from other EPTA member organizations. Would you like to be a host of a training for EPTA colleagues? Check out the requirement on the link below and apply by 15 May.
KMS report
EPTA secretariat periodically receives queries, and in this section, we will highlight the latest KMS reports. Click on the link to view responses:


Events
MoA was signed to establish RAP
In April, the Memorandum of Agreement was signed in Montevideo in order to establish the RAP (Red de las Academias Penitenciarias Bi-regional) between Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Portugal) and Latin America. The aim of the RAP is to exchange good practices on the organisation of penitentiary schools and their training programmes, and to strengthen cooperation, including the scientific one, for the prison sector. Furthermore, the event was dedicated to the importance of training in prison doctrine, dynamic security and prevention and control measures, in order to counteract corruption in prisons. The Italian Department of Penitentiary Administration has been elected the role of holding Vice-President.
Violence against women, what answers does restorative justice provide?
The French National Correctional Administration Academy will organize a seminar in the framework of the 2022 French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It will focus on the following topic: “ Violence against women, what answers does restorative justice provide?” taking place in Agen on 8-9 June 2022.
 
More information will be followed soon.
Publications
Recommendations for families and professionals when there is a revelation of sexual violence in children and adolescents
These recommendations and guidelines are intended to serve as an initial guideline at the time of disclosure or discovery of sexual violence experienced by children and adolescents (CA) and are focused on two groups: a) the family and people close to the CA and b) the teams of professionals that are accompanying them from the revelation, with a clear purpose of reducing secondary victimization. The recommendations are available in English, Catalonian and Spanish.
Documents and replay videos from 2021 Symposium on Restorative Justice
On November 2021, the National Correctional Administration Academy organized a hybrid symposium entitled "restorative justice: plural and shifting frontiers". This symposium brought together around 380 people in person and remotely: probation officers, probation directors, trainee penitentiary services directors, auditors from the National School for the Judiciary, magistrates, prison administration staff, justice professionals and researchers from different disciplines. Should you be interested in browsing the documents and replay video (in English and in French) of the event, you can click on the link below.
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