Breaking the Silence: Enhanced Domestic Abuse Awareness

This full-day training equips professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to identify, assess, and respond to domestic abuse in all its forms, enhancing safety planning, understanding legislative frameworks, and fostering effective multi-agency collaboration to protect and empower survivors.

Training overview:

· Sharpen your lens to confidently identify domestic abuse and navigate the civil and criminal legislative frameworks that shape professional responses

· Strengthen your safety planning skills through a deeper understanding of risk factors and the DASH assessment model

· Demystify multi-agency processes by exploring the roles and functions of MARAT and MARAC, and how collaboration saves lives

· Uncover the hidden harm of post-separation abuse, including stalking and harassment, and how recent legislative changes reshape our approach

· Confront culturally specific forms of abuse, including honour-based violence, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, with sensitivity and clarity

· Explore the spectrum of relationship violence, from situational couple violence to violent resistance, and why context matters

· Understand the psychology of change and the interventions that can support perpetrators toward accountability and transformation

· Respond with compassion and precision to survivors, knowing the full range of support available across civil and criminal systems

· Plan for safety with nuance, especially when children are involved, balancing risk, trauma, and long-term wellbeing

· Recognise the interconnectedness of abuse, including its impact on children and adults with care and support needs

· Identify perpetrators effectively

Once you have booked this training, you will receive the teams link to join the session at least 2 days before the event starts.

If delegates fails to attend a course that they have booked, or cancel with less than five working days’ notice, they will still be charged. A delegate will be deemed a non-attendee if they arrive 30 minutes after the course has started.

Please be aware once event has been booked, should you require a refund, the delegate will pay the Eventbrite fees. Should we need to cancel the event due to unforeseeable circumstances, the Change Project will cover the Eventbrite fees.