Introducing a new CPVA Directory!

I started posting news about the project I was working on, with others, to map provision for families experiencing child to parent violence and abuse (CPVA) in 2014, with regular updates before finally launching the page on my website in October 2015. At that time we knew of maybe 30 specialist services dotted around the country, some already well established, and others already a little precarious in their funding stream. Since that time there has been an exciting slow but steady growth in provision as different agencies have got on board, speeding up most recently through the support of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner‘s work in raising the profile of CPVA.

Keeping the Directory up to date and relevant has been a mammoth task, and one which is now beyond my capabilities with the growth in services, and so I have been working with Respect for the last year to see how it might migrate onto a new platform. Respect have a long history of work with young people using violence and abuse in the home, and importantly they also already have a large database of services within the domestic abuse arena, and so I knew that this was an area of work that they had both the experience and capacity to maintain for the future. Over the last months, all members of the old directory were contacted and gave permission to move across and the new Directory was finally launched last week!

The Directory has its own page on this new resource, which as a whole will boost the resources available to both practitioners and families in a way that I was never going to manage. Just as before, there is a visual map, as well as listings of services covering a wider geographical area. There are now a number of websites offering a range of services, complementing each other, and supporting the work across the country – and indeed the world.

I plan to maintain a very basic directory service on my own pages, but for location based services you should now hop one over to Respectyps.org.uk

I do hope you will join me in celebrating this new improved service. Please do let Respect know (or me – and I can pass on messages) if you have a new service that is not listed, so that it can be added to the resource. We have a long way to go before there is a specialist service available to each family where they live, but in the meantime we can be proud of the small steps.