Assuring the quality of training opportunities
A few years ago the sorts of training opportunities available for practitioners and parents / carers (in the UK) around…
Child to parent violence
Be curious
Watching the most recent series from Channel 5 about child to parent violence recently, Violent Child, Desperate Parents, I’ve been…
Child to parent violence as a “process”
Estefania Lema has sent me the abstract and details of her PhD thesis looking at child to parent violence. Child-to-parent…
Parent Abuse: Gender issues in group work
Not a very snappy headline I’ll grant you but the alternative was too cheesey – “Keeping gender on the agenda”.…
Child to parent abuse: “The pointy end of entitlement”
The Australian media have offered considerable coverage of child to parent violence and abuse over the last year, as conferences…
Child to parent violence: the new topic for discussion at parties!
If you are engaged in work that is looking vulnerable to belt tightening and budget cuts it may not seem…
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…
The Care Act 2014: how can it support individuals experiencing child to parent violence?
Yesterday I attended a seminar organised by AVA, considering the interface between the Care Act 2014 and domestic violence, and…
CPV Mapping: Question, Questions, Questions!
There has been an amazing response to the launch of the map last week, locating specialist services for families experiencing…
The West Midlands Police response to CPV
Despite urging that we take steps to name and count incidents of child to parent violence, I am generally sceptical about…