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Parental Issues
Parental issues can impact on children and young people and the way in which they grow and develop.
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Children in the Care of Others
Children may live in the care of others under a variety of arrangements with or without the formal badge of "being looked after". These children may face specific risks and it's important we can identify the different arrangements there may be.
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Domestic Abuse
Learn about the impact of domestic abuse on families and access our online learning with an opportunity to think about how you can help.
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Perplexing Presentations and Fabricated or Induced Illness
Although rare, there may be times when a parent or carer presents a child as ill or more unwell/more disabled than the child actually is. There are many reasons why this can happen, but children can experience physical harm, emotional harm and neglect as a result of this abuse.
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Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation (sometimes referred to as female circumcision) refers to procedures that intentionally alter and cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is illegal in the UK.
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Forced Marriage
Forced marriages are illegal in the UK as is removing someone from the country to force them to marry in a different country.
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Honour-based Abuse
So-called ‘honour’-based abuse is abuse that is perpetrated to protect or defend the honour of a family or community.
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Parental Learning Difficulty
Many parents with learning difficulties feel doubly discriminated against and feel they are seen as a failure all their lives: services do not understand them, do not listen to them and do not expect them to succeed.
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Parental Mental Ill-health
Poor parental mental health can have a detrimental effect on the health and development of children and young people, and in turn, can increase the risk of mental health problems for the children and young people themselves.
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The Impact of Poverty
Living in poverty can compromise a child or young person’s aspirations, health, well-being and achievements. Education settings play an essential role in easing this impact and creating opportunities.
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Parental Drug and Alcohol Misuse
Children are at greater risk of harm when they live in households with parental substance misuse problems, with increased risks of domestic abuse, neglect, a poor home environment and exposure to unsafe substances.
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Young Carers
Young carers are not a homogeneous group, and their caring role will be different dependent on the parent’s or sibling's additional need. Regardless of the caring role they take on they will face additional challenges at home and when in education.
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Resources for child abuse linked to faith or belief
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Child abuse linked to faith or belief
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Harmful practices poster
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Responding to Harmful Practices against Women and Girls in London
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Information and support for victims of ‘honour’-based abuse
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Recognising domestic abuse
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Domestic Abuse Poster
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Parent Substance Misuse Poster
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Child substance misuse poster
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Child-on-child abuse poster
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Emotional abuse poster
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Poverty poster
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Missing children poster
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Online safety poster
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Family in prison poster
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Preventing radicalisation poster
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Sexual abuse poster
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Sexual violence and sexual harassment poster
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Neglect poster
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Operation Encompass