The first Safe & TogetherTM European conference is taking place in June 2019 in Stirling, Scotland. Safe & TogetherTM is a model for domestic violence informed child welfare work. The Improving Justice in Child Contact project is excited to see how Safe & TogetherTM might be used across Europe because the principles of Safe & […]

Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC) is a partnership project across 5 European countries (8 organisations) with the goal of improving children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them. Bulgaria The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (BGRF) was founded in 1998 to promote social equality and women’s human rights. BGRF has a range of expertise […]

This blog is also available in English Olá, sou uma das jovens peritas para o Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC) Project (Projeto Melhorar o Sistema de Justiça quanto ao Regime de Visitas de Crianças em Situações de Violência Doméstica). Discursei recentemente, juntamente com outras duas jovens peritas, na reunião de lançamento do IJCC, em […]

Hello, my name is Ingrid and I work at Glasgow Women’s Aid (GWA) as a children and young people’s support worker. I would like to share my thoughts and insights from the Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC) kick-off meeting which I attended with 3 fantastic young people who engage in our participation projects. The […]

Este blog também está disponível em Português Hello, I am one of the Young Experts for the Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC) Project. I and two other Young Experts recently spoke at the first IJCC kick-off meeting in Edinburgh. We talked about the project and what we hope to achieve with it, as well […]

Children tell us that some of the systems that are supposed to keep them safe and well actually harm them. But our systems are not always good at hearing what children can tell us about how to keep them safer. One particular area of concern is child contact – the legal systems that decide if, […]