Expert risk assessments of parents where violence or abuse within the family is a concern

ASSESSMENT SERVICES

We offer assessments for all forms of family violence and abuse but our main specialism is domestic violence between parents.

Domestic violence risk assessment

Purpose: typically to assess whether domestic violence is likely to occur or recur between a child’s carers (and thereby compromise the child’s safety and welfare).

Parents’ protective ability

Purpose: typically to assess whether a child’s carer has the ability to recognise the potential for future harm of exposing the child to domestic violence, and has sufficient willingness, confidence, knowledge, skills and authority to assert him/herself in order that appropriate boundaries are maintained and that the child’s safety and welfare are prioritised.

Treatment suitability assessment

Purpose: typically to provide a prognosis of whether specific child-protection treatment goals (usually identified in a prior risk assessment) are likely to be achieved within the child’s timescales.