By Christine Barter;Emma Renold;David Berridge
A lot obstacle has been expressed concerning the scandal of actual and sexual abuse through care staff of youngsters residing in residential houses yet this can be the 1st special examine of the most important challenge of violence among kids. in accordance with wide interviews with adolescents in addition to employees, kid's personal views and reports of violence are highlighted. there's vital new information regarding varied degrees of violence among houses, the importance of gender and crew hierarchies, and techniques to take on violence.
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About half the perpetrators of abuse were staff (mostly male) and half were other young people (Department of Health 1992, p. 20). The attention of the Committee focused on the selection, development and management of staff and none of its 83 recommendations concern abuse by children. A main government initiative to raise standards in the management and delivery of children’s social services has been Quality Protects (Department of Health 1998b), set up following the Children’s Safeguards review of children living away from home (Utting 1997).
It is noted that staff often do not take peer violence seriously, but that where positive intervention strategies do exist there is some evidence that they are effective in reducing levels of bullying. Some studies suggest that in well-managed services, the more mature and constructive young people are likely to have most influence on the group, with the implication (not tested in research) that poor management may have the opposite effect. 22 Peer Violence in Children’s Residential Care In planning the present research, the insights from earlier studies have been used in conjunction with recent developments in theorising violence.
22 Peer Violence in Children’s Residential Care In planning the present research, the insights from earlier studies have been used in conjunction with recent developments in theorising violence. It was clear that the focus of the study could not be restricted to physical violence, since previous evidence demonstrated that threats, intimidation and indirect methods of attack were inextricably linked with, and supported, both individual acts and general climates of physical violence. The meaning of violence Theoretical understandings of the term violence are under-developed and remain problematic (Richardson and May 1999).
