United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice A/RES/69/194 (g) To review and update national law to ensure that the decisions made by the courts in cases involving violent offences against children: (i) Denounce and deter violence against children; (ii) Hold offenders accountable, with due regard to their age and maturity, for their acts involving violence against children; (iii) Promote victim and community safety, including by separating the offender from the victim and, if necessary, from society; (iv) Allow for the severity of the physical and psychological harm caused to the victim to be taken into consideration; (v) Take into account the impact on victims and, if affected, their family members, of sentences imposed on perpetrators; (vi) Provide reparations for harm caused as a result of the violence; (vii) Promote the rehabilitation of the perpetrator, including by promoting a sense of responsibility in offenders and, where appropriate, rehabilitating and reintegrating perpetrators into the community. X. Strengthening capacity and training of criminal justice professionals 28. Recognizing the responsibility of criminal justice professionals to prevent and respond to violence against children and to protect child victims of violence, as well as the need to facilitate and support this role, Member States are urged, as appropriate: (a) To take measures and allocate adequate resources to develop the capacity of professionals within the criminal justice system to actively prevent violence against children and to protect and assist child victims of violence; (b) To enable close cooperation, coordination and collaboration between criminal justice officials and other relevant professionals, especially those from the child protection, social welfare, health and education sectors; (c) To design and implement training programmes for criminal justice professionals on the rights of the child, in particular on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and international human rights law, and to provide information on appropriate ways to deal with all children, in particular those who might be subject to discrimination, and to educate criminal justice professionals about the stages of child development, the process of cognitive development, the dynamics and nature of violence against children, the difference between regular peer groups and gangs, and the appropriate management of children who are under the influence of alcohol or drugs; (d) To design and deliver guidance, information and training to informal justice system actors in order to ensure that their practices, legal interpretations and decisions comply with international human rights law and effectively protect children against all forms of violence; (e) To design and implement mandatory, cross-cultural gender- and childsensitivity training modules for criminal justice professionals on the unacceptability of all forms of violence against children and on the harmful impact on and consequences for all those who experience such violence; 20/29