CSPRP Review - Domestic abuse in multi-agency child safeguarding

The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel's (the Panel) observatory analysis of cases in 2020 points to domestic abuse as a factor in over 40% of cases. This predominantly (74%) involved the father as a perpetrator and the mother as a victim, although other patterns including the mother as the perpetrator and both parents as perpetrators were recognised. No cases to date have featured child to parent abuse or teenage relationship abuse. A significant theme in the 2019-20 analysis was the lack of understanding ab...