Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse and Violence 23/24

TARGET GROUP

This course is targeted to adults and children health and social care staff in a wide range of settings which includes foster carers, family support workers, children home staff, and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners and volunteers who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton.

Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals.

Staff Groups B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework. 

Level 3 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018 - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies For Healthcare Staff): Registered health care staff who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to role).  

AIM 
The aim of this course is to highlight the importance of including perpetrators in domestic abuse assessments.
To encourage greater consideration of assessing risk factors associated with perpetrators within assessments and planning whereby risk assessments and planning for intervention will be improved.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 By attending this session, participants will have:
• Developed understanding of the risk indicators relating to perpetrators of domestic abuse. 
• A clearer understanding of the importance to consider and include perpetrators of domestic abuse fully within their assessments. 
• Be able to consider the risks of perpetrators even when there is no engagement or they are absent.