TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - 'From Awareness to Practice': Children, Domestic Violence and Child Welfare
JO  - Child abuse review
A1  - Rivett, Mark
A1  - Kelly, Shalonda
SP  - 224
EP  - 242
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - This paper traces the development of social care practice in relation to child witnesses of domestic violence. It suggests that this development has been dominated by subsuming the needs of these children into a child protection process. The paper outlines how this has led to significant (but often unclear) legal and policy initiatives which have failed, as yet, to be translated into practice. The paper argues that there are a number of important reasons why child witnesses of domestic violence should not always be assumed to need the response of a child protection system and that a future practice, legal and policy response should be based on a wider understanding of their needs.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0952-9136
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -