Living in fear

Children become the victims, directly or indirectly, of violence by their parents in the home. Mary Evans looks at what early years practitioners can do in a tense family situation Two women in England and Wales will be killed this week by their current or former partners, while in the time it takes you to read this article, ten calls reporting domestic violence will have been made to police across the UK. Those desperate pleas for help represent just a fraction of the problem. According to the national domestic violence charity Refuge, on average a woman is beaten...