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‘From awareness to practice’: children, domestic violence and child welfare
Author(s) -
Rivett Mark,
Kelly Shaun
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.945
Subject(s) - child protection , welfare , domestic violence , relation (database) , process (computing) , welfare system , political science , child care , psychology , criminology , law , sociology , public relations , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , nursing , environmental health , database , computer science , operating system
This paper traces the development of social care practice in relation to child witnesses of domestic violence. It suggests that this development has been dominated by subsuming the needs of these children into a child protection process. The paper outlines how this has led to significant (but often unclear) legal and policy initiatives which have failed, as yet, to be translated into practice. The paper argues that there are a number of important reasons why child witnesses of domestic violence should not always be assumed to need the response of a child protection system and that a future practice, legal and policy response should be based on a wider understanding of their needs. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.