Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Child to parent abuse

Research from the University of Brighton, puts potential prevalence at 1 in every 10 families experiencing some form of parent abuse.

Child-to-parent-abuse (CPA) or adolescent-to-parent abuse (APA) is any behaviour used by a child or young person to control, dominate or coerce parents, and is more common than you might imagine. It can include emotional, verbal, physical or financial abuse and includes “coercive control”, or in other words, the parent or other adult is compelled to change their own behaviours for fear of further abuse.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of this please contact the Designated Safeguarding Lead or see the useful links section below.

Useful links

Samaritans 

116 123 (freephone)

jo@samaritans.org

www.samaritans.org 

SOLACE

Helpline freephone:
0808 802 5565

In this section...

E-Safety

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Policies and guidance

Early Help

Domestic Violence

Find My Kids App

County lines

Out of hours information

Advice about improving your sleep

See also...

Safeguarding: Instagram

Safeguarding: Social Media & Mental Health

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Online Safety Help Videos

AI and nude images

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Wellbeing

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Managing In-Game Spending

Explore...

NHS 111 mental health support

Caught In The Web

24/7 Text support for Mental Health

Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard and How to Help Them Embrace It

Cyberbullying Advice

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

TwitBook - Can you spot the problems with this profile page?

New...

Cover Supervisor

Students

January 2026 Examinations

Term dates

Teacher of English - (Maternity cover - Possible TLR available)

School Policies

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Discover...

Safeguarding Wellbeing Internet Safety School Nurse Health Out Of Hours Computer Spending Notices Drugs Online Safety Emergency january Jobs Guidance Safety Learning Support Routines Term Dates Cover Instagram

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...