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Domestic Violence and Child Contact: Issues for BME Women and Children

What we know. Number / prevalence taken from BCS

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Domestic Violence and Child Contact: Issues for BME Women and Children

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    1. Domestic Violence and Child Contact: Issues for BME Women and Children Dr. Ravi K. Thiara Centre for Safety and Well-Being University of Warwick R.K.Thiara@warwick.ac.uk

    2. What we know Number / prevalence taken from BCS – little difference by ethnicity Some research on women but BME children’s experiences under-researched/invisible

    3. Same and different issues Various studies point to overlap between woman and child abuse - 40-60% Potentially damaging though also personal resilience Know it is happening – witness and overhear – women think they are protecting Overlaps with physical and sexual abuse Intervening places CYP at risk

    4. Different issues Differences in how they respond to DV and how treated by services Consider location in wider society and cultural contexts BME communities are diverse

    5. Different issues DV definitions - multiple family members Cultural beliefs act as barriers – izzat and sharam Low awareness – longer & severe abuse – under-use services Extreme isolation

    6. Different issues Require intense support for longer Culturally specific forms of harm – FGM,FM & HBV Depression – lack of space/support = impacts on rebuilding of lives Under-mining of mother-child relationship

    7. Inappropriate responses create barriers Widespread stereotyping and discrimination ‘Reductive approach’ = double victimisation Racial harassment and abuse in new areas/schools No recourse to pubic funds

    8. Child Contact & PSV Child contact and PSV big issues London DV murder review showed 76% cases involved separation (Richards and Baker, 2003). 65% resident parent’s fear of child abduction was one of the reasons for contact happening in a contact centre (Aris et al 2002).

    9. Child Contact & PSV Involvement of wider family can create issues – perpetrate/collude with abuser Children may want to maintain contact Source of support/abuse for children Deny mother relationship with children

    10. Child Contact & PSV Takes BME women longer to move on – though same level of overwhelming problems in immediate PS period, after 6 months less improvement in circumstances = path more complex and difficult for BME women (Humphreys and Thiara 2002; Humphreys 2008).

    11. New Research CC issues assumed to be similar Currently no research explored issues for BME families and the ways in which ethnicity, DV & CC may intersect and impact in particular ways Research focused on South Asian and African-Caribbean women and children in the context of PSV

    12. New Research… This 2 year NSPCC funded study interested to find out: Particular issues/experiences of child contact in the context of PSV among SA & AC women and children? How the formal court/assessment process experienced by women and children?

    13. New Research… How key services responding to and experienced by women and children? What are the needs of women and children in such situations and what service responses are required?

    14. Group work In your practice settings: What issues arise in relation to child contact and post-separation violence for South Asian and African-Caribbean women – especially in relation to the assessment process? What are the opportunities and barriers for you in responding to these issues? What is needed to enhance your practice/response?

    15. Contact Details Dr. Ravi K. Thiara Centre for Safety and Well-being School of Health and Social Studies University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel. 02476 573771 / 07876 217918 Email: R.K.Thiara@warwick.ac.uk

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