Domestic violence training handbook
The Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse handbook for professionals has been updated and is available to download.
The Common Risk Assessment is available for all professionals to use - please use the downloadable form below. The user information is listed at the top of the document, however, if you need further information, please contact 0161 603 4320.
A Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse Training course is available for professionals to attend. The trainers of this course are volunteers from a range of services and agencies, such as Housing; Police; Probation Service; Education Welfare; Midwifery; Safeguarding Children; Social Work Teams and so on, and are all qualified trainers in domestic abuse prevention and awareness.
The training is free to attend, and consists of one full day and one half day session. Both sessions must be attended to complete the course. We run one complete session per month, and places are offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
The full day covers:
- Confidentiality - and when this can be broken
- Defining abuse - psychological / physical / financial / sexual
- How perpetrators 'work' i.e. blaming / scaring / justifying etc
- What people want from relationships
- How to leave an abusive relationship
- Exploring attitudes towards domestic violence
- How people recognise they are in an abusive relationship - and steps to make changes
- Information on services for women with low and high risks
- Additional issues for women from marginalised groups - disabled / lesbian / asylum seekers/ deaf etc
- Understanding why women 'don't just leave'
- What services can do to support women
- Networking - amongst other professionals on the course
The half day covers:
- Good practice - do's and don'ts - when providing a service to victims
- What to do if the alleged perpetrator comes to you for information on the victim
- The impact on children
- Interagency working
- information on services available
Forum:
We have a Domestic Abuse Forum for frontline workers and supported survivors. This exists to facilitate networking, consultation and the sharing of information and good practice. If you wish to be informed of Forum events, please contact 0161 603 4320.
Leaflets and posters available:
- Broken Rainbow (LGBT information)
- Braille - You don't have to live in fear of domestic abuse
- Dating Abuse (information for teenagers)
- Forced Marriage
- Friends and Family
- Hideout (for children and young people)
- IDAAS (Independent Domestic Abuse Advocacy Service)
- Karma Nirvana (Information for people fleeing forced marriage)
- MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference)
- Men's Advice Line
- Paws for Kids (Pet fostering service)
- Relate
- Respect (information for perpetrators of domestic abuse)
- Salford Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse leaflet
- Salford Women's Aid
- Specialist Domestic Violence Court information
- Tulip Group (For parents who are abused by their children)
- Victim Support
- You don't have to live in fear of domestic abuse - available in a range of languages, such as Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, Punjabi, Somali, Polish, Turkish, Gujurati, Vietnamese,
To add your name to the Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse Training mailing list, or if you require any information on domestic abuse; services; handbook content or even copies of the free local information leaflets, please contact the Domestic Abuse Admin Officer on 0161 603 4320.
Downloadable documents
- Common Risk Assessment form (Adobe PDF format, 17kb)
- IDAAS leaflet,(Adobe PDF format, 80.2kb)
- MARAC leaflet, (Adobe PDF format, 119kb)
- Specialist Domestic Violence Court leaflet, Adobe PDF format, 45.7kb)
- Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse Handbook for Professionals, (Adobe PDF format, 595kb)
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This page was last updated on 09 September 2008
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