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_aStanley, Nicky
999 _c5718
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040 _aAFVC
245 _aA stop–start response :
_bsocial services’ interventions with children and families notified following domestic violence incidents
_cNicky Stanley, Pam Miller, Helen Richardson Foster and Gill Thomson
260 _bOxford Academic,
_c2011
500 _aBritish Journal of Social Work, 2011, 41(2): 296-313
520 _aThe harm consequent on children's exposure to domestic violence is recognised in legislation in England and Wales. This paper reports on a study of the social work response to 184 families notified by the police to children's services in two English authorities. Families were tracked through case records over 21 months subsequent to the notification. The perspectives of social services' practitioners and managers were also captured through interviews. Only a small proportion of families received a service in the form of an initial assessment or further intervention; the notification triggered a service for just five per cent of families. Families who received a warning letter only were just as likely to be re-referred as those who met with no response. Those families receiving a service were likely to experience repeated notifications and assessments. The limited time period for completing assessments contributed to initial assessment workers' lack of engagement with perpetrators of domestic violence. Current structures for assessment and intervention contribute to a stop-start pattern of social work that seems ill-suited to building the trust and engagement needed to challenge the complex and enduring experience of domestic violence. (Authors' abstract). A freely accessible report of this study is also available (#5719). Record #5718
650 _aCHILD EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTERVENTION
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 4 _aSOCIAL SERVICES
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650 5 _9562
_aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aMiller, Pam
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700 _aRichardson Foster, Helen
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700 _aThomson, Gill
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773 0 _tBritish Journal of Social Work, 2011, 41(2): 296-313
830 _aBritish Journal of Social Work
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcq071
_yRead the abstract
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE