Published case reviews highlight that professionals sometimes struggle to keep their focus on the child when they are working with families where there is domestic abuse. The parents, relationship problems can end up overshadowing those of their children.
The learning from these reviews highlights that professionals need to engage with men living in the family home, while also making sure they see the mother alone. Professionals need to keep in mind the impact on children of living with domestic violence.
Reasons case reviews were commissioned
Case reviews published between 2011 and 2013 where domestic abuse is a key factor have highlighted that domestic abuse is widely recognised as one of the factors that puts children more at risk of harm. In these serious case reviews, children died, or were seriously harmed in a number of different ways:
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