Module 1 – Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse

Overview

This multi-agency training will support professionals to work with individuals, which also includes adults with care and support needs and children and families, using strength-based approaches and DASH in assessing risk and safety planning. This session will further develop understanding of coercive control including aspects that perpetrators use to maintain or regain control e.g. parental alienation and gaslighting. Case examples and reflections on real experiences will be used throughout the session.

Who is Module 1 – Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse aimed at?

Multi Agency Practitioners

Course Length

1 day

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:-

• Understand the legal framework including the new Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and how it will inform our response for those experiencing abuse and the duties placed on local authorities, police powers, protection orders (DAPO’s)
• Identify the insidious nature of domestic abuse and the invisibility of coercion and control  
• Review information about the prevalence and statistics of domestic abuse  
• Highlight the barriers to disclosing abuse to a professional and leaving an abusive relationship  
• Explore the importance of early risk identification, intervention, and prevention
• Highlight the need for a multi-agency approach and roles of agencies in relation to risk identification and management
• Describe how to evidence professional concerns to enable an informed multiagency response, leading to a safety plan
• Review and complete a DASH risk assessment to understand how DASH risk assessment tools are used
• Identify techniques/tools to increase confidence to be professionally curious and to ask about domestic abuse in a way that makes it easier and safer for people to disclose