Sowing the Seeds: Children’s Experience of Domestic Abuse and Criminality, a report by the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales Dame Vera Baird also found an “overlap” between children living in such settings and looked-after children placed far away from home and those involved in gang crime.
The report also warns that children who experience domestic abuse in the home are also more at risk of such issues and is calling on the government to recognise children who witness abuse as victims of crime.
The report states: “A quarter of children who were identified as having socially unacceptable behaviour also have identified concerns about domestic abuse of a parent or carer. Practitioners who support children out of gang-related activity tell us the children and young people they work with commonly come from backgrounds of domestic abuse.”
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