The interorganisational trust process in the Flemish judicial youth care chain: Perceived trustworthiness, its inputs, and willingness to exchange information

This research project is aimed at exploring the process of interorganisational trust in the juvenile justice system. When judicial care for a minor is warranted, several independent agencies need to cooperate to protect a child from an unsafe upbringing. The success of this collaboration depends greatly on the quality of the decisionmaking and information sharing troughout the chain. The aim is to discover what enables actors in these relations characterised by high dependency but also high autonomy to trust each other during interactions, and what the consequences are when there is trust present.