National Cedar Conference Report 2019

Recovering from Domestic Abuse: Cedar’s Impact in Scotland took place at COSLA, Edinburgh on 3rd May 2019. The event hosted over 100 delegates and was supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, Improvement Service and COSLA. The conference aimed to:

• Raise awareness of the causes, consequences and appropriate responses to domestic abuse
  impacting children, young people and their mothers;
• Highlight the vital need for recovery programmes such as Cedar and demonstrate, through
  lived experience speakers and experts in the field, the impact that Cedar has had on mothers,
  children and young people recovering from domestic abuse across Scotland over the last 10
  years;
• Showcase Cedar’s strengths in early intervention for children, young people, and their
  mothers who have experienced domestic abuse, including multi-agency working, resilience
  building and therapeutic group work; and
• Demonstrate Cedar’s key role in supporting and strengthening current agendas, approaches
  and legislation to, in particular, GIRFEC and Equally Safe.

The National Cedar Conference Report 2019 is available to download, which showcases the feedback from attendees and summarises the key note speeches, panels, and group activities. We welcome this report being used as resource to share with external stakeholders to highlight Cedar’s work and the recognition it has received over the last 10 years.