THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD DELINQUENCY IN BUILDING PREVENTIVE POLICY IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Abstract

The National Council for prevention of child delinquency was established under the Law on Justice for Children as an autonomous and independent body, which has jurisdiction in the area of monitoring of preventive activities by all the institutions and civil society organizations, in order to prevent child delinquency.
The National Council was established in 2009 and is composed of 15 members who are representatives of the relevant ministries, institutions and NGOs involved in the system of justice for children and eminent scientists and experts.
The National Council has a range of responsibilities the Law: it has adopted the National Strategy for Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (2010-2020); conducts research; provides initiatives to improve the legal provisions; but the basic competence is monitoring of the situation of protection and promotion of the rights of the children. For this purpose the Council prepares annual reports on the situation of the child delinquency and implementation of the law.
The report also gives an overview of the situation of the child delinquency through the data obtained based on 32 indicators submitted by 63 institutions in the justice system for children.
This paper provides an overview of one aspect of the problem which is a scope of work of the National Council. That is the process of monitoring of the situation of the child delinquency by presenting the data published in the Annual Report of the Council. As well as the monitoring of the situation in the area of Justice of the child and the child delinquency for 2015. The annual Report of the National Council is submitted to the Parliament, the Government, the Supreme Court and the Judicial Council.