Strategic oversight, governance
–
- The VAWG Strategic
Group had been re-established and underneath this sits the MARAC
Steering Group and MARAC itself
- There is a
Woman’s Safety Group currently in operation that sits under
the Community Safety Partnership.
- Tri-borough VAWG
Strategic Group and Tri brought police and local authority lead
meeting
- A Woman’ Safety
Forum is in the process of being established following the
Woman’s safety Q&A
Learning and Development
Offer:
- Toolkits in relation
to domestic abuse is available to all staff and professionals on
our Internet and Intranet sites with information such as: domestic
abuse from what it is, how to recognise it, how I can talk to
somebody, how to make a basic safety plan where I can refer on to
etc.
- The lbbd Internet has
been updated in terms of our community members and people who may
be accessing, looking for information, advice and guidance and
support so that the website has been divided into professionals
area and a community area and the content completely changed to try
and give people and communities, the tools that they need to
respond to domestic abuse issues as they're presenting to
them.
- A domestic abuse
learning and commissioning lead has been commissioned and will
launch a learning and development programme from the 1st
April 2023.
- The council learning
programme whereby the content of that programme is broad and
wide-ranging, but ranges from things like what does barking and
what does domestic abuse look like in Barking and Dagenham, with
focuses on intersectionality’s, it has course on child and
adolescent parent to violence and abuse. We have courses on the
difference between domestic abuse and parental
conflict.
- There is an
additional enhanced offer in terms of learning development from our
Cranston who will provide learning around how to work with
perpetrators and how to assess perpetrators, what to do when
working with perpetrators and where you can refer them
to.
- A tool has been
commissioned to help us assess the impact of domestic abuse on
children and young people.
- The MARAC protocol
has had complete refresh of that and several related processes
and pathways across the MARAC to other
groups. Once approved this will be circulated and added to our
Internet sites.
Commissioning Service
Offer
Children and Young People
-
- The Reset programme
supports children and young people who are displaying concerning
behaviours, either in terms of potential to become a perpetrator or
potential to become a victim of domestic abuse.
- Domestic Abuse
(locality workers) are sitting within the family hubs and support
children and young people and building links into schools and youth
clubs and places where people where young people are to have those
conversations – this will help with early education
work.
- An online and
information advice and guidance and wellbeing service for children
and young people is being created so that they can access support
as they are impacted by domestic abuse, whether that be within
parent or carer relationships or themselves.
Vulnerable Adults:
- IDVAS service to
support adults, with mental health, substance mis-use,
disabilities
- Domestic Abuse
locality workers are also working with adult victims on an early
intervention level
- Women Safety Officer
(Cranstoun) - provide primary support
to victims under the Cranstoun offer.
Perpetrator commissioned
services (to be launched):
- Education and
behaviour changed programme (Cranstoun) – 6 week online
education intervention, with an aftercare programme particularly
developed on fathers
- DA
perpetrator/behaviour locality workers – this service will
provide links to the community and voluntary sector and act as a
key link for schools within the area
- Perpetrator temporary
accommodation – a dedicated unit within the Foyer to use
while perpetrators engage in Cranstoun Programme
DAIP
- This year we had a
successful bid to Ava to bring in some additional resources to
support us, to deliver excellence and homeless and housing services
and what that is a group of survivors and people with lived
experiences who have been trained and brought together by Ava, who
are going to work really closely with us to help us identify issues
within our services and areas for improvement and then work with us
in a kind of Co design Co production way to think about some of
those solutions.
- Champions Scheme -
Both workforce and community and linked to safe havens will be
rolling out next year, so getting that up and running is going to
be a key priority for the group.
- Drafting the new VAWG
Strategy in line with the Serious Violence Duty
- The Domestic Homicide
Review will provide new learning on how partners can best support
victims of domestic violence.