Safeguarding issues in child to parent violence
A lot has been written about the difficulties in adopting a safeguarding response to the issue of parent abuse. First…
Child to parent violence
The Respect Young People’s Toolkit
I met recently with Julia Worms, of the Respect Young People’s Service, to learn more about the Respect Young People’s…
A rock and a hard place
Writing a piece for PSW magazine over the holiday, and then watching the Archbishop of Canterbury’s new year’s day speech,…
Parent abuse legislation on the cards?
Since work is directed by policy, and policy dictated by legislation, Yvonne Nugent hopes that one outcome of her research…
Fifth National Practitioners’ Seminar
This was the fifth annual seminar, addressing young people’s use of violence in close relationships, presented by Respect, this time…
Was it ever thus?
I still have a clear memory from my university days, of a particularly inspiring lecture on the work of Geoffrey…
Bournemouth training day, and a discussion about involving the police
An excellent training day in Bournemouth on Tuesday, attended by around 70 practitioners from around the Bournemouth and Poole area.…
You wait around for years and then two come along together!
Five years ago, when I first began seriously investigating parent abuse, the studies and research papers were largely coming out…