How do you respond simultaneously to the needs of adults experiencing domestic violence and the specific needs of their children? Domestic Violence and Child Protection explores the challenges of working effectively in this complex field and offers positive models for practice.Leading practitioners and researchers outline the essential safety considerations for children, adult victims and child protection workers, and stress the importance of children's experiences, using children's own words to describe their diverse needs. The contributors offer examples of good practice in prevention, intervention and recovery, drawn from international settings. They highlight new directions for policy and practice, and consider whether these might be achieved through increased communication and coordination between agencies, or by developing multiprofessional agencies that are able to offer integrated responses. Individual chapters address child abduction, legal issues concerning child contact arrangements, and dealing with abuse in the context of divorce. Including perspectives from social services, health services and the voluntary sector, this book is a valuable source of information and ideas on how to work safely and sensitively with children living with domestic violence and will be a key reference for social workers, health professionals and policy makers.
Introduction, Cathy Humphries, University of Warwick and Nicky Stanley, University of Central Lancashire. Part I: The Issues Defined/Setting the Scene. 1. Relevant Evidence for Practice, Cathy Humphries. 2. Multi-agency and Miltidisciplinary Work: Barriers and Opportunities, Catherine Humphries and Nicky Stanley. Part II: Children's Views and Needs. 3. What Children Tell Us. 'He Said He was Going to Kill our Mum.' Audrey Mullender, University of Warwick. 4. Prevention Programmes for Children and Young People in the UK. Jane Ellis, University of Warwick Nicky Stanley and Jo Bell, University of Central Lancashire. 5. Listen Louder: Working with Children and Young People. Claire Houghton, Violence Against Women Unit, Scottish Executive. Part III: Protecting Women and Children. 6. Asking about Domestic Violence: Implications for Practice. Marianne Hester, Bristol University. 7. 'Point of Contact' Frontline Workers Responding to Children Living with Domestic Violence. Jan Breckenridge, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Claire Ralfs, Relationships Australia. 8. Using Research to Develop Practice in Child Protection and Child Care. Elaine Farmer, Bristol University. 9. Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don't? The Contradictions between Public and Private Law. Christine Harrison, University of Warwick. 10. Child Abuse and Domestic Violence in the Context of Parental Separation and Divorce: New Models of Invention. Thea Brown, University of Melbourne, Australia. Part IV: Working with Perpetrators. 11. Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment and Safety Planning in Child Protection - Assessing Perpetrators. Lorraine Radford, University of Roehampton, Neil Blacklock and Kate Iwi, Domestic Violence Intervention Programme, London. 12. Are Men who use Violence against their Partners and Children Good Enough Fathers? The Need for an Integrated Child Perspective in the Treatment Work with the Men, Marius Rakil, Alternative to Violence Project, Oslo. 13. Confronting the issues of child abduction. Denise Carter, Re-unite, International Child Abduction Centre, UK. 13. Men's Use of Violence and Intimidation against Family Members and Child Protection Workers. The Contributors. References. Indexes.
Much was familiar, but to read one coherent narrative was immensely powerful.
