Scottish Women's Aid

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Frontline professionals have a key role in supporting victims of domestic abuse and their families to be safe. This session will provide an overview of how to identify risk and promote safety for victims, survivors, and children, affected by domestic abuse.

• Exploring key principles and practical practice approaches to identifying risk, keeping victims and children safe and ensuring perpetrators are visible, recognised and accountable for the breadth of their actions and impact, by the end of the session you will:

• Understand the impact of domestic abuse on those who experience it and how it affects their behaviour and choices

• Have an enhanced understanding of the main issues of providing a safe, sensitive and appropriate service to women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse

• Have the skills, knowledge and tools to better identify risk, assess protective factors and increase safety.

• Have greater confidence and motivation to improve individual and organisational responses to domestic abuse to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011, initially as the Chair of South Lanarkshire Women’s Aid, prior to spending 9 years with East Ayrshire Women’s Aid where she was responsible for the East Ayrshire Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnership Learning and Development Programmes and the lead trainer in East Ayrshire HSCP for all GBV training.

Recently Judy has become a Safe & Together Certified Trainer and was part of the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff, alongside being part of the Scottish Women’s Aid expert Coercive Control training team supporting the wider roll out of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act (DASA) 2018.

Judy previously coordinated and delivered the CEDAR programme and works widely across a range of settings training and awareness raising and is passionate about improving the understanding of and response to women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Date

13:00-15:30, 18 November 2021

Contact

Rosemary Banner
01312266606

Theme

Social justice & poverty

Cost

£25.00

Attendance type

Online only

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