Committee of Experts on the prevention of violence (ENF-VAE)
Furthermore, ENF-VAE will prepare, as appropriate, on the basis of the above-mentioned reviews, policy instruments as well as practical tools to guide member States and other stakeholders in this area, in line with international and European standards and good practice, including the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, relevant conventions of the Council of Europe and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Meetings 2025
Ad-hoc ENF-VAE online meeting 10 February 2025
List of participants
Meeting report
Meeting 4-5 June 2025
Agenda and annotated agenda
List of participants
Meeting report
Meeting 7-8 October 2025
Agenda and annotated agenda
List of participants
Meeting report
Composition
Background documents: reference documents / relevant documents
- Terms of reference 2024-2027
- Terms of reference 2023-2024
- Workplan proposal and working methods 2025
- Safeguarding children from the risks of accessing online pornographic content: Concept note for a thematic exchange ; Meeting report of the thematic exchange
- Implementation review on Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)10 on Council of Europe policy guidelines on integrated national strategies for the protection of children from violence: CM/Rec(2009)10 ; Questionnaire; Table of replies from member States; Methodology to conduct implementation reviews of Committee of Ministers’ Recommendations.
Completed work
- Study on Sexual violence and harmful sexual behaviour displayed by children: Nature, causes, consequences and responses (2020); and updated study on Sexual violence and harmful sexual behaviour displayed by children: Nature, causes, consequences and responses (2024)
- Concept note to carry out Child consultations on age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education (2024)
- Feasibility study on age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education to strengthen responses for – inter alia – preventing and combating violence, including risky or harmful sexual behaviour by children (2024)
- Progress and delay in achieving universal prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment in Council of Europe member States (2024)
The predecessor of ENF-VAE, the Working Group on responses to violence against children (CDENF-GT-VAE), carried out its work during June 2020 and September 2022.
