A lot of general information about this issue, including detail on how you could practically offer support to children, has been given elsewhere in this website.

›› Read from ENCARE main site what can I do

This area of the website will give specific information about UK guidance available on this topic and also on UK specific services. Note that we have been somewhat selective as it is not possible to give details of every single service or resource that is available.

The co-existence of both problems makes a swift and integrated response crucial, yet the additional associated complexities and numbers of people who may need to get involved makes such a response difficult to put into place.

Authors such as Galvani in a briefing paper for Alcohol Concern [pdf], Evans (in a book chapter in Harbin & Murphy’s 2006 book see further reading page (link given below) and Bailey in the Stella Project Toolkit – see below) have written eloquently on the opportunities and barriers to joining up the response of alcohol services and domestic violence agencies.

Important developments at a national policy level have the potential to include enhanced support to these often ignored sub-populations of children. These developments include: the 2004 Children Act, the Every Child Matters agenda, the Children’s Plan, the Common Assessment Framework and Children’s Trusts more detail and URL links for these is given elsewhere in this UK website.

›› Read on UK site on parental alcohol misuse

›› Read on UK site on parental domesctic abuse