News from the 2013 Youth Justice Convention
The Youth Justice Convention, hosted over two days in Birmingham, UK, at the end of November, included this year a…
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The Lost Soul: parent abuse on the big screen
Every so often I come across something completely different in my searches regarding parent abuse. One such find was the…
Some book reviews
A couple of reviews for Amanda Holt’s text, Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice, have been brought to…
Parent abuse coverage during the international week to end violence against women
BBC Radio Northants provided a comprehensive backdrop to the NADA (Northamptonshire Against Domestic Abuse) Domestic Abuse Conference which took place…
Parent Abuse: the victim / perpetrator problem
When I speak with people about children’s violence to parents, the question of terminology regularly raises its head: How helpful…
Welcoming in a new era
As the new Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, takes up her post this month, it looks as if her…
East Midlands Practitioners Peer Learning
I have just spent an exciting and inspiring morning with representatives of the Youth Offending Service across the East Midlands…
Parent Abuse covered by the BBC
Following on from the Guardian article at the weekend, there has been coverage across radio and TV regarding the findings…
That thing …
… When you do or think something and suddenly everyone else is doing the same? Well it’s been that sort…
A growing problem in Ireland
This piece in the Irish Times dropped into my inbox over the weekend. Declan Coogan addressed the Annual Work Conference in Dublin,…