Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence

This book is for a multi-professional audience and promotes an evidence-based model for assessment and intervention. Its aim is to promote resilience and safety of children by providing practical and realistic suggestions for workers who are making judgements about safeguarding children. It includes case study examples of how the approach works in practice.

Those who work with children who have experienced violence within the family will be pleased to see the clear connection made between the impact of violence and the trauma in children, and this model undoubtedly puts children at the centre of the assessment process. However, the authors do not distinguish between family violence and domestic abuse, and seem to group these together. Those who specialise in working with domestic abuse will therefore find aspects of the approach and its case study interventions difficult to read, as there is no focus on the "power and control" dynamics usually present in domestic abuse. Indeed, well-known researchers in the field of domestic abuse are absent from the bibliography.