A senior duty and assessment practitioner recalls how she dug in her heels to prevent a mother and her children from being returned to an abusive situation.
I once worked with a woman and her six children who had stayed in approximately 20 refuges. In all of that time they had never been referred to social services, and so had never received the support and advice they needed.
Each time they left the woman's abusive partner, they were either traced, or threats were made to maternal family members. This resulted in the woman and her children repeatedly returning to her boyfriend, who was the father of her youngest four children.
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