A charity that deals with family violence wants to help more children who have witnessed or experienced abuse. Pave will run a new child protection service centre for the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) and, although a suitable site is still be located, it is expected to be ready next year.
The organisation currently helps around 40 children a year, most of whom have been referred via the courts through personal protection orders or because of mandatory counselling for parents. It's executive director, Dr Sudha Nair, said yesterday: "Children can hear what is going on even though the door is closed, and they can see the aftermath of violence - everything broken, their mother's bruise - it is traumatic for them."
Pave works primarily with adults involved in family violence, and saw cases of spousal violence rise to 217 from April to December last year, 11 more than in the same period in 2014. The number of people referred to it or requesting information went up by 22 per cent in the financial year ending in March last year, although not all of them required any follow up.
Thoughts:
- There is this recent shift in taking a look at things from the children's perspective, for example also is to consider the child's feelings and voice during the divorce proceedings of his/her parents. Child abuse/ violence is a very real thing, which can be transferred to the child now as trauma, and also might be an accepted way to deal with things when they grow old. Tackling this from young is important to stem the circle from going on.
Thoughts anyone?
Yours,
Something Small Thinking Big
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