Starting from Scratch
What would be the first thing to do if you were starting from scratch? Not the usual question I am…
Family Lives
Wishing you hope in the new year
Sometimes life doesn’t play out the way you hoped – or planned. For those living with children who use behaviour…
Some seasonal thoughts
We* are all feeling a little emotional at the moment (covid, Strictly Come Dancing final, new grand daughter, Christmas songs…
School based support for #CPV
I feel very strongly that school-based family workers are ideally placed to offer parents support, where there is child to…
“Hollyoaks Spoiler: Son and mother domestic abuse storyline”
Writing in the Metro last week, Soaps Editor, Duncan Lindsay revealed an interesting up-coming plot line in the soap, Hollyoaks.…
The BBC tackles child to parent violence
(Screenshot. See below for link to the interview). This week saw huge progress in the drive to make child…
Child to Parent Violence and the Coronation Street spin-off
As the Coronation Street story line featuring Simon’s abuse of his step-mum Leanne Battersby rolls on, Radio York featured child…
“Cases of children abusing their parents has soared by 60% in two years”
People have been much exercised over recent weeks by an apparent huge rise in the number of younger and younger…
New Year, New Reading
I have recently been sent links to new and additional published articles in the field of adolescent to parent abuse;…
“I promise you we’ll do some more investigation”
Following on from the fantastic UK media coverage of parent abuse in the second half of last year, the radio…