Parent abuse: Do the math. The cost of not intervening
“Mental disorders cost the economy more than £100bn a year” …. “2 million more adults and 100,000 more children will…
troubled families
Weekend round-up
Over the last weeks a number of things have caught my attention and I thought it worth while bringing them…
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…
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…
Pointing the finger at “Troubled Families”
The media buzzes again today with discussion about help for Cameron’s 120,000 “troubled families”. (BBC article here) The term itself…
32 essays on parenting
The Family and Parenting Institute published a series of 32 essays this month, considering the pressures on modern parenting, what…