DOMESTIC ABUSE - A LIFETIME CONTINUUM
from cradle to grave
JERSEY Channel Islands
11th & 12th MAY 2009

MONDAY A.M.

OPENING Sir Philip Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey >>

Keynote: Children Scotland - National Domestic Abuse Delivery Plan - Artemis Pana >>

Workshop 1 a.m. England - Women’s Aid Expect Respect Education Toolkit - Nicola Harwin (CE) and Nicki Norman (DCE) Women’s Aid England >>

Workshop 2 a.m. Wales - The impact of inter-parental conflict on children - the development of an Assessment Toolkit - Teresa Hallet and Matthew  Pinnell >>

Workshop 3 a.m Ireland - Routine Enquiry in Maternity Hospitals - Mary Higgins

MONDAY P.M.

Keynote: Court/Process USA - Domestic Violence Bureau - The Brooklyn Experience - District Attorney Hynes and Ms Wanda Lucibello

Workshop 1 England - Co-ordinated community response to domestic abuse - a  local and national perspective - Shan Kilby, ADVANCE Brent and  Catherine Kane, DV Co-ordinator Islington

Workshop 2 Northern Ireland - Courts, The Northern Ireland Perspective - Judge Mervyn Bates

Workshop 3 Guernsey - Safe Contact - Cherry McMillen, Lieutenant Bailiff, Guernsey Royal Court

Plenary Session - Notes

TUESDAY  A.M.

OPENING Lord Justice Wall, Court of Appeal (England)

Keynote: Health  Europe - Different Initiatives on Domestic Abuse, An overview from the  Council of Europe and European Commission  - Johanna Nelles, Co-secretary of the Ad Hoc Committee on Preventing Violence Against  Women and Domestic Violence (Strasbourg) & Ingrid Bellander-Todino, DAPHNE Programme  Coordinator (Brussels)

Workshop 1 Jersey - Domestic Abuse & Psychological well-being of children - Dr  Bryn Williams CAMHS

Workshop 2 Wales - Ante Natal Care Pathway - Lynn Lynch

Workshop 3 Northern Ireland - A GP’s perspective - Dr George O’Neill

TUESDAY P.M.

Keynote: Older People & Vulnerable Adults A comparison of approaches to domestic violence in the elder community across all RtS Jurisdictions - Gary Fitzgerald Chief Executive of Action on Elder Abuse

Workshop 1 Northern Ireland - Older But Not Safer - Rosemary Magill and Daniel Blake

Workshop 2 Wales - Male Victim Aspects - Adam Rees

Workshop 3 England - Changing the lives of women offenders who are victims of abuse - Nasim Akhter, Together Women Project Contract Manager & Lead on Women Offenders, Yorkshire & Humberside

Final Plenary Session - Notes