The POAM project leaflet is now available on the website’s resources page. The leaflet along with other project resources including the Best Practice Guide and Executive Summary will be circulated to Central Authorities across the EU and brought to the attention of other relevant stakeholders.
Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh organised and delivered training at the UK POAM Training workshops on 15 and 17 December 2020. The workshop was based on the POAM Best Practice Guide on the protection of abducting mothers in return proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence. This was the
The second German training session took place online via AdobeConnect on Friday, 27 November 2020. The training was integrated into the annual conference for family law organised by the German Lawyers Association. Therefore over a hundred participants attended the training session. The aim of the workshop was to train key
The POAM Team are very pleased to announce a major milestone in the project as the POAM Best Practice Guide is officially published today and is now available. The Best Practice Guide on the protection of abducting mothers in return proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence was prepared under the
The first German training workshop took place successfully online via Zoom on Friday, 18 September 2020. 32 participants registered and attended the training session. The majority of the participants were judges and lawyers dealing primarily with child abduction cases, as well as social workers. The aim of the workshop was
The POAM Team are very pleased to announce that the project video is now available on the website’s resources page. The creation of the project video was headed by the Croatian partner in consultation with the other consortium members. It is hoped that the video will facilitate public awareness-raising and
On 28 July 2020, Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh organised the third Project Management and Co-ordination Meeting for the POAM project. The meeting was held on the Collaborate virtual platform and brought together the project research partners from the UK, Croatia, Germany and Italy, as well at the
A virtual platform success: On 19 June 2020, the POAM research team hosted the International Experts’ Workshop on Rethinking the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction. The workshop, which was originally due to be held in Milan on 27 March 2020 but was rescheduled on
On 27 January 2020, Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh organised the second project management and co-ordination meeting for the POAM project. This was a significant milestone at the half-way mark on the project. The meeting took place at the University of Aberdeen (Sir Duncan Rice Library), hosted by
The research team is pleased to announce that the work on the Project Reports has been completed, marking also the completion of WP3 of the project. The Reports incorporate an element of desk research into the project and focus on the problem of domestic violence in the specific context of
