RCPV: The final conference
Brighton last week saw the final conference for the Responding to Child to Parent Violence Project, the second largest funded…
domestic violence
Improving the response to family violence
News in Britain this week of the appointment of Seema Malhotra as shadow minister to tackle violence against women and…
“My Violent Child”
In February this year, I wrote about a meeting I had had with Nick Poyntz, from Popkorn TV, to discuss…
“The family unit is supposed to be a safe place”
Mapping support for parents News at last about the mapping project I have been talking about for ages! A group…
Understanding trauma as a precursor to parent abuse
Reading around, and attending conferences recently, I have been impressed with the work of practitioners in the area of early…
Early Intervention Foundation report into the impact of Domestic Violence
The importance of intervening early on to support families experiencing domestic violence was underlined again last week with the launch…
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…
That thing …
… When you do or think something and suddenly everyone else is doing the same? Well it’s been that sort…
Addressing parent abuse through Juvenile Family Courts in USA
This piece from the Orlando Sentinel on 4th October, reporting on responses to parent abuse following the death of Rosemary Pate at…
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