Weekend round-up
Over the last weeks a number of things have caught my attention and I thought it worth while bringing them…
Parent abuse
Trouble in the Troubled Families Department
I have a sort of Love-Hate relationship with the Trouble Families Programme and so I like to keep abreast of developments…
Elder Abuse: Is this the same thing as parent abuse?
In June 2006 an article in the Times newspaper reported on a parliamentary Health Committee inquiry, set up in 2003…
Silent Cries: a child’s account of living with violence
Amongst the many factors that have been identified with regard to children’s violence to parents, the experience of living with…
A Police Response to Parent Abuse
When I undertook my Masters study in 2004 – 6, one of the people I interviewed was a police officer,…
You can’t afford to dabble
Can anyone respond to a referral of parent abuse? Since we are encouraging practitioners to recognise when child to parent…
Model students perpetrating abuse
If, like me, you prefer your maths concrete and you use things like a classroom of students as a unit…
From witness to perpetrator: is it inevitable?
The recent Respect National Practitioners Seminar, held in London, featured a keynote speech from Professor David Gadd, of the Centre for…
No rules about controlling relationships
Coverage of an assault by Charles Saatchi on his wife Nigella Lawson, outside a London restaurant at the weekend, has…
An update on Step Up in the UK
Today we have a guest post from LynetteRobinson, of Alternative Restoratives. Lynette is thrilled to have had her work in…