Improving 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.

In this podcast, Susana Pavlou, Director of the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) was interviewed by Magda Zenon, the host of Kaleid HER scope, a MYCY radio programme. Susana is talking about ignoring intimate partner violence against women in the determination of child custody can have serious repercussion on the child.

Susana Pavlou is in the Cyprus team of the IJCC project.