Survivors’ Voices, The McPin Foundation, and the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network are conducting research to understand how to help children and young people who are experiencing, or at risk of, abuse at home but who are not known to social services or other authorities, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards.
The research is being led by survivor-researchers with lived experience of violence and abuse and involves an anonymous online survey, open to people aged 16 and older living in the UK who:
- have lived experience of being a child or young person at risk of violence and abuse from someone in their household; and/or
- work with children and young people at risk of violence and abuse
For many children and young people, home is not a place of safety but a place of risk. Survivors’ Voices, the McPin Foundation, and the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network want to find practical ways to help identify and support children and young people at risk of violence and abuse.
Please consider taking part in our anonymous online survey if:
* you have experience of being a child or young person at risk of violence and abuse from someone in your household
* or you work with children and young people at risk of violence and abuse, or both.
* you are physically safe and emotionally able to do so.
* you are aged 16 or older and live in the UK.
You will not be asked to provide information about your experiences of violence and abuse. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete. Your responses will be anonymous and treated confidentially. To access the survey – and more detailed information – please go to https://kclbs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_831tV8UY8xXxlRP
The study has been approved by the King’s College London Psychiatry, Nursing and Midwifery Research Ethics Subcommittee [HR-19/20-19537].
The survey builds on a rapid consultation on this issue, which we recently published (available here) and has been shared with government and key agencies. The results of this survey will also be widely shared with the aim of informing policy and practice improvements and help sustain children and young people at risk.
If you have any questions about the project, please contact Dr Sian Oram, who leads the Violence, Abuse, and Mental Health Network, on sian.oram@kcl.ac.uk
Anjuli Kaul / Network Coordinator, Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network
Section of Women's Mental Health
Health Service and Population Research Department
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
King's College London
Twitter: @voiceofsurvivor, @vamhn, @McPinFoundation
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