It is with deep regret that due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have taken the decision to cancel this year’s COPE Conference and Annual Networking Meeting due to take place in Leiden, 12-14 June 2020.  We are particularly saddened to have to do this as we were looking forward to celebrating COPE’s 20th anniversary together with you.

Plans were well underway for the conference ‘Time to Act, How to Act’ where the voices and views of children with a parent in prison would have been centre-stage, as well as for the weekend events.  We are however pleased to announce that we will just put the events ‘on hold’ until 2021 when EXODUS will be delighted to host COPE for the 21st anniversary conference and Annual Networking Meeting. We look forward to seeing you then.

Warm regards to all, 

Lucy Gampell (President, COPE) & Jan van Gils (Director, EXODUS)