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,…
Posts by nrutter
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…
Model students perpetrating abuse
If, like me, you prefer your maths concrete and you use things like a classroom of students as a unit…
The law of unintended consequences
Today see the roll out of the welfare benefits cap across England, Wales and Scotland. What we are supposed to…
From witness to perpetrator: is it inevitable?
The recent Respect National Practitioners Seminar, held in London, featured a keynote speech from Professor David Gadd, of the Centre for…
Understanding is everything
You may have caught the controversial coverage of comments made a few weeks ago by a mother of 4 children…
No rules about controlling relationships
Coverage of an assault by Charles Saatchi on his wife Nigella Lawson, outside a London restaurant at the weekend, has…
An update on Step Up in the UK
Today we have a guest post from LynetteRobinson, of Alternative Restoratives. Lynette is thrilled to have had her work in…
Teens see violence as normal
Eddie Gallagher has drawn my attention to an article in www.dailylife.com.au, commenting on an apparent rise in domestic violence crimes…
Adolescent to parent abuse: the facts
I was interested to be sent this fact sheet recently, by Heather Nancarrow, Director of the Queensland Centre for Domestic…
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