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Context Nationally, there has been a trend and awareness of a growing number of children and young people coming to the attention of the police, Children's Services and Youth Offending Teams for APV ( Adult to Parent Violence) related

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Context

Nationally, there has been a trend and awareness of a growing

number of children and young people coming to the attention of the police, Children's Services and Youth Offending Teams for APV ( Adult to Parent Violence) related offences and behaviour.

Quantitative surveys show 7-18% of two parent families and 29% of
ne parent families are experiencing APV, this equates to a total of

4% of all families. If this is not addressed children and young people risk a criminal record and there is a risk of family breakdown.

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What is Break 4 Change (B4C)?

For young people aged 11-16 and their parents/carers. The programme is run by IOW Children’s Social Care and IOW Youth Offending Team. Break4Change (B4C) is an APV licensed programme which works simultaneously with both children and their parents or extended family structure. B4C is ten week (one day a week for 2 hours a time) group work program that uses therapeutic strategies supporting parental authority, repairing dislocated relationships, containing conflicts and discovering and supporting competence. It focuses on supporting parents/carers on extreme behaviours exhibited in their children whilst working with children in a separate group to identify how they might change their behaviours to prevent abusive and violent behavior in the future.

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Creative …

Break 4Change was designed to have a creative element in-bedded within it, local artist are used and this has been found to be fundamental to successful engagement with the young people. Children and Young people are given the opportunity to use work completed

n the B4C programme towards Arts Discovery and Explore Qualifications.

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Plans…

Currently the IOW have completed 2 pilot programmes in 2018-2019. Referrals can be taken from Early Help Services, Children’s Services and YOT. Further training is scheduled for September which is being funded via the OPCC grant. The next programme commences in September 2019 for 10 weeks, the this will be followed with another programme in January 2020. For more information please contact Sarah.Herbert@iow.gov.uk.