Domestic violence and child protection: issues in safety planning

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 282-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Waugh ◽  
Michelle Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Safety Planning

Children Living with Domestic Violence

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Mullender
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Impact

Until very recently social work and other child care agencies in Britain have paid little, if any, attention to the impact of domestic violence on children. Audrey Mullender — a pioneer of research in this field — argues the need for a radical improvement in agencies' response to domestic violence, based on a general raising of sensitivity and awareness at both worker and agency level. Among the specific areas for development suggested are an emphasis on safety planning with women and children, the need for better links between women's services such as Women's Aid, and child care and child protection agencies, and the promotion of positive and healing work with child survivors of living with abuse.

History repeating: child protection responses to domestic violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Humphreys ◽  
Deborah Absler
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection

Locally, together and close to the child - how the citizenship of school employees leads to the implementation of global standards of child protection

2021 ◽  
Vol 601 (7) ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Monika Czyżewska
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
School Employees ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Global Standards

For social pedagogy, it is important to answer the question whether the school and its surroundings are today a place where adults, aware of social and legal responsibility, adequately respond to suspicions of domestic violence against schoolchildren, and whether there is a dissemination of child protection standards, which are emphasized in international documents. Using the case study method, in Warsaw's Praga district (which was the Polish "cradle" of interdisciplinary work in the 1990s) I conducted two research (using an interview technique) on the role of schools in preventing child abuse. 10 respondents took part in the first phase of the study in 2009, while in the second phase (in the years 2019–2020) – 15 respondents. The aim of the study (in both phases) was to identify experiences regarding the quality of cooperation among school employees as members of interdisciplinary teams, in two periods of teams’ activity: before the introduction of the amendment to the Act on Counteracting Domestic Violence in 2010, and after its introduction – from 2011 (the aim of the article is to compare these experiences from both periods). The results of the research show that cooperation within the interdisciplinary teams established by the amendment is generally perceived positively by the members of these teams, although those who cooperated before the amendment, i.e., not obligatorily, define today's cooperation as too formalized and bureaucratic. The respondents' statements prove that currently interdisciplinary teams (from the perspective of a school employee in the Praga-Południe district) are less effective, and participation in their work, although obligatory, is relatively less frequent than when the meetings were voluntary.

Survivor-Defined Advocacy in the Civil Protection Order Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-318
Author(s):  
John Costello ◽  
Alesha Durfee
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Civil Protection ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Order Process ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Planning Meeting ◽  
Protection Order ◽  
Domestic Violence Law

This study examines how lay legal advocates meet petitioners’ extralegal and legal needs during the protection order process using survivor-defined advocacy. We conducted interviews with 20 lay legal advocates and identified four ways in which advocates provided services consistent with survivor-defined advocacy, including court accompaniment, safety planning, meeting petitioners’ extralegal needs, and centering the survivor as the decision-maker. We discuss our results in light of previous research on survivor-defined advocacy and describe the implications in the context of current domestic violence law and policy, including the need to enhance lay legal advocates’ ability to provide survivor-defined approaches in their services.

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