Guidance for multi-agency forums: Safeguarding children effectively
Guidance to support professionals working with cases involving children.
Supporting families: practice briefing for multi-agencies
Guidance about domestic abuse to multi-agency professionals working with families through the Supporting Families programme
This practice briefing provides guidance about domestic abuse to multi-agency professionals working with families through the Supporting Families programme.
Supporting Families is a government programme that helps families across England to get the help they need to address multiple, complex problems including domestic abuse.
Contents
- Who is this briefing for?
- What does this briefing cover?
- What is domestic abuse?
- Supporting Families and domestic abuse
- Working with domestic abuse within a family context
- Identifying risk
- Working with abusive people within the family context
- Guidelines for working with perpetrators of domestic abuse
- Identifying the primary perpetrator
- Working with children experiencing domestic abuse within a family context
- Complex needs and children
- Parenting
- Useful links
- References and further reading
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