Co-Minor-IN/QUEST. Current practice: survey findings

In this paper we present the results of the survey held in 6 Eu-memberstates during the Co-Minor-IN/QUEST project, amongst interpreters who work with minors in legal proceedings and other professionals namely legal actors (youth judges and lawyers, police officers) , psychologists and child support workers/ The results are overwhelming (more than 700 completed surveys)and also sometimes surprising: interpreters give themselves responsabilities they shouldn't take, other professionals give the interpreter responsibilities they should take themselves. Moreover, quantitative (statistical)analysis is not always corresponding to the narratives that are analyzed in a qualitative way. In-depth analysis shows that there is a lot of discussion on roles and responsibilities in the ImQM-constellation. When analysing the needs of all the parties involved in the survey, the most salient issue is the fact that professionals involved in ImQM don'tknow each other and each other's professionalism and role enough. So joint training will be suggested by the authors.status: publishe