Domestic abuse: Good practice responses
Course overview:
Develop your confidence and essential skills to recognise, understand and respond to domestic abuse.
Explore definitions, prevalence, typologies, relevant legislation and tools to assess risk. Increase awareness of the importance of multi-agency working, and how to refer individuals to specialist services and MARAC so that they can receive the right support. Discuss counter allegations and skills for working with those that harm; alongside good practice in understanding the victims’ voice.
Aim(s):
To build confidence and develop essential skills to recognise, understand and respond to domestic abuse.
Objectives:
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:
- Recognise the signs of domestic abuse and discuss how to respond
- Understand the barriers faced when 'asking the question' and managing responses to a disclosure
- Identify a victim's level of risk and use the Dash risk checklist
- Know how to refer a victim to a specialist domestic abuse service or Marac so that they can receive the right support
- Understand the importance of the Marac process and multi agency working
- Gain skills of working with those that harm
- Understand the victims voice
Maximum group size: 16
In-person training – we ask you to provide a suitable venue and refreshments.
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Your trainer(s)
Lucy Giles
Lucy brings 30 years’ experience in the social welfare sector both frontline and strategically; primarily in mental health, homelessness/housing, substance misuse, domestic abuse and sexual violence. Most recently She worked for SafeLives since 2010, in a range of roles including MARAC development officer for the South West and Wales, practice consultant and programme Lead for Wales and the MARAC lead for the organisation. She has also written a raft of policy and best practice guidance on domestic abuse and safeguarding for the voluntary and statutory sector.
Lucy has delivered training in a range of organisations including domestic abuse services, police, health, children’s social care, adult safeguarding, covering domestic abuse, risk assessment, MARAC and multi-agency working, and domestic abuse and older people; as well as delivering regularly at conferences around the UK.
She was previously Chair of the board of trustees for Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Services (SARSAS) and currently sits on the expert advisory board for national charity Pegs (Parental Education Growth Support) Lucy is an accredited trainer and has an MA in Ethics of Social Welfare.”
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