importance of challenging their own and others’ hypotheses about what is happening in families, recognising how their own beliefs and experiences can affect their understanding of a family’s circumstances. • Practitioners, as part of their support for children, young people, and families, mitigate the impact of poverty and stress, providing advice and advocacy that helps families to access financial support, housing, and community resources to meet needs. Practitioners identify and differentiate when families need support 34 due to deprivation, and situations where children’s needs are not being met by parents and carers due to abuse and neglect. • Practitioners support parents and carers to understand their histories and experiences and make sense of what influences the love and care they provide to children and young people. Where needed, practitioners draw on the expertise of other agencies or professions to support parents. • Practitioners work sensitively, with whole families, to identify and address the impact of adversity and trauma in their lives. Practitioners reflect on how adversity and trauma might affect how a family engages with children’s social care, and they use their expertise to explore these ideas with family members with care and compassion. Practitioners help families to understand how experiencing harms, such as domestic abuse, mental health problems, substance misuse, and exploitation, impact the children and young people’s safety and wellbeing. Practitioners recognise that children and young people can be victims of domestic abuse in their own right if they see, hear or experience the effects of domestic abuse7. • Practitioners use the knowledge, expertise, and resources available through voluntary, charity and social enterprise organisations in