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Domestic violence

Resources for professionals and adults working with children and young people

Feel safe at home: what to do if violence is happening around you (PDF, 2.17MB)

A compact and user-friendly booklet for children aged seven to twelve. It talks in straightforward language about what domestic violence is, how it can make children feel, and how and where they can get help. It explains that domestic violence is not their fault, and that there are people who will listen and understand.

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Whole woman: essential information for mums (PDF, 908KB)

 
A small booklet designed primarily for women, although it recognises that men experience domestic violence too. It acknowledges women's fears and encourages them to seek help for themselves and their children. It helps women to understand the impact of domestic violence on their children and encourages them to move on from a position of feeling powerless to being able to take action to improve the situation.

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Understanding the links: child abuse, animal abuse and domestic violence

A leaflet for professionals working with children, families or animals.

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Research

• Domestic violence, child contact, post-separation violence: issues for South Asian and African-Caribbean women and children
  
  
• Meeting the needs of children living with domestic violence in London
  
  
• Animal abuse and child maltreatment: a review of the literature and findings from a UK study
  
  
• Children and families experiencing domestic violence: police and children’s social services’ responses
  
  
• “I can't tell people what is happening at home”. Domestic abuse within South Asian communities: the specific needs of women, children and young people
  
  
• Understanding what children say: children's experiences of domestic violence, parental substance misuse and parental health problems

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Conference reports

• Responding to Black and minority ethnic children and young people affected by domestic violence conference report (4 October 2006: Leicester) (PDF, 635KB)
  

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Related reading

• Domestic violence statistics
  
  
• Domestic violence and children - a reading list
  
  
• Women's Aid - www.womensaid.org.uk
  National charity working to end domestic violence against women and children.
  
  
• The Hideout - www.thehideout.org.uk
  An online refuge for children and young people affected by domestic violence.

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