Scottish Women's Aid

This session explores how children and young people can experience domestic abuse, how this can impact on their lives and the coping strategies they and the non-abusing parent can employ.

This session also explores how abuse can continue to be experienced by children and young people post-separation highlighting the need to ensure any contact is safe contact and does not become a means for the continuation of abuse to the children and/or non abusing parent, usually the mother. The session will also highlight the importance of listening to children and young people and how difficult it can be for them to be heard and their views acted upon.

Learning outcomes:

Understand how perpetrators abusive actions and negative parenting choices can impact on a child or young person’s educational and social experiences as well as their physical health and wellbeing.

Explore how children and young people directly and indirectly experience domestic abuse and the coping strategies they can employ and the role of resilience.

Build upon practice skills and approaches that work with women and children who have experienced domestic abuse.

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson, SWA National Training Coordinator.

Judy has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011 and also worked with the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff. Judy regularly provides training and consultancy to a wide range of multi agency statutory and voluntary bodies including the COPFS, Police Scotland, Social Work, Law Society Scotland, Criminal Justice Workers, Heath, Housing and Violence Against Women & Girls Partnerships etc. Judy has a wealth of experience informing her practice and a burning passion for working to end domestic abuse and violence against women in all its forms.

We can also offer tailor made, bespoke support with training needs analysis, training, policies and procedures and implementing new legislation. We are happy to build a package specifically relevant to your organisation and the needs of your team, building on the work of our domestic abuse specialist trainers across the country. We are happy to deliver both virtually and face to face, and can accommodate any number of learners. Our training and inputs are fully interactive, engaging and will support your team with practical application of their learning journey with us. Please contact judy.ferguson@womensaid.scot Scottish Women’s Aid’s National Training Co-ordinator to discuss your requirements.

Date

10:00-12:30, 9 May 2024

Contact

Rosemary Banner
01312266606

Theme

Social justice & poverty

Cost

£15.00 – £30.00

Attendance type

Online only

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