This free webinar shared how children and young people can contribute to legal decisions about child contact, in the context of domestic violence. Based on the 5-country project
Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC), the webinar presented and discussed how children and young people, who have experienced domestic violence, can provide their opinions and knowledge to improve systems and processes.
The webinar was chaired by
Professor Kay Tisdall, Improving Justice in Child Contact, with presentations from:
- Prof Kay Tisdall, on behalf of the Childhood and Youth Studies Research Group (CYSRG), University of Edinburgh
- Dr Marsha Scott, Susie Dalton and Sue McKellar, on behalf of Scottish Women's Aid,
- Ana Alexandre, Alexandra Dourado, and Zahrah Latif, on behalf of União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (UMAR)
- Sónia Pinela, public prosecutor on behalf of Family and Children Center of the Specialized Integrated Section of Domestic Violence of the District of Lisbon (Portugal)
- Rosa Monteiro, on behalf of Portuguese State Secretary for Citizenship and Equality
All presentation slides are available in PDF format from this
LINK.
English transcript is available via this
LINK.
The English and Portuguese transcripts of the two presentations delivered in Portuguese can be downloaded from the links below:
Note: The
parts that show videos of young people in their avatars at the webinar have
been deliberately removed from this recording in order to protect their
confidentiality.
Information sheets in each partner's languageImproving
justice in child contact is a project exploring
child contact decisions in families affected by domestic abuse. It is funded by
the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020).
Child contact is understood to be the systems and court processes which decide
whether and how a child sees a parent that they are not living with.
It is a partnership project across Bulgaria, Cyprus,
Portugal, Romania and Scotland.