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Domestic violence - understanding domestic violence and abuse

Working effectively with individuals and families with multiple and complex needs requires staff to have an understanding of domestic abuse.

This course provides an overview of domestic violence and abuse and the characteristics of the perpetrator and victim. The course will provide staff with the skills to identify, challenge respond when an abused person wants to leave their situation.  It produces more confident and competent practitioners who are ready to deliver positive and effective support to individuals and families.

It is suitable for front line staff working on the Early Help/Troubled families agenda as well as school staff, children services, those in early years settings, the VCS, Housing and Health.

Learning Outcomes

  • Have an awareness of domestic violence and abuse.
  • Have an awareness of the characteristics of the perpetrator.
  • Have an awareness of the behaviours displayed in an abusive relationship.
  • Have an awareness of the impact of domestic abuse and violence.
  • Have an understanding of the impact on the child caught in an abusive relationship.
  • Have an awareness of how to respond when an abused person wants to leave their situation: safety planning.
  • All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
  • Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.

Case Studies

  • Supporting team development -Voluntary sector organisation

    We have been working discreetly with a national voluntary sector organisation to support team development.

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  • Camden - Early Help & Assessment Training

    Camden Council were looking for a training provider that could help embed their ‘Resilient Families’ Early Help agenda to a large number of multi-agency staff. We delivered a series of one-day introductory sessions to multi-agency professionals to raise awareness following the restructure of the Early Help offer for families in the borough.
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  • Leicestershire C Change

    Change is a structured, evidence based approach to assessing parental capacity to change in situations where the parenting is likely to be causing harm to their children. We are very pleased to have been commissioned by Leicestershire to provide 2 sessions of the two-day C-Change training and 2 follow up days.
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  • Support for Troubled Families - Grant Funded Activity

    Interface received a grant from DfE to support LA’s in developing their services for families with multiple problems.
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Cancellation Policy

We are very flexible and will do our utmost to rearrange training should the need arise, but our trainers obviously commit themselves to the training days agreed and so if you need to cancel at short notice we will need to charge a cancellation fee to cover their time. 

Please see our cancellation terms / fees.

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