Looking behind closed doors
Meeting the needs of Domestic Violence victims from a service provider perspective.
Domestic violence and abuse claims the lives of around two women a week, and affects millions more people.
Whatever form it takes, domestic abuse and violence is rarely a one-off incident and occurs across society, regardless of age, gender, race, sexuality, wealth and geography.
Understanding the issues surrounding victims and survivors of domestic violence is vital for Public Bodies and other service providers in providing an effective response.
This course addresses the impact of domestic violence and provides information and guidance to staff on providing a positive response and ensuring policy matches practice.
Meeting these challenges is not easy. Therefore this practitioner based event will focus on:
- Understanding the dynamics of an domestic abuse relationship.
- Increasing frontline staff sensitivity to potential signs of domestic abuse
- Increasing confidence in providing support
- Ensuring an appropriate response when abuse is disclosed
- Ensuring your policies and procedures are robust
- Approaches to multi-agency working
- Meeting excellence in service provision
Public Bodies and Services need to ensure that the have the procedures and mechanisms in place to meet the needs of victims and also ensure that are dealing appropriately with the perpetrators.
This course will ensure that organisation are meeting the necessary regulatory requirement.
Our approach is based upon best practice and quality training.
This course is a must for all frontline staff.
