Domestic Violence and Abuse - Trusted Professionals (DAPS Level 3) *
Course details
Aim: To assist professionals to build trusting relationships with survivors of domestic abuse by increasing their knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to fulfil the role of a trusted professional.
Dates: Thursday 3 April 2025, Thursday 8 May 2025, Thursday 12 June 2025, Thursday 10 July 2025
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Venue: Kingsmeadow Learning Hub
Facilitators: Multi Agency facilitators
Booking: Contact angeladodd@gateshead.gov.uk
Learning outcomes
Module 1: Gender, power and domestic abuse
- Understand DA as a gendered, societal, global issue, framed within the Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) agenda
- Understand how social disadvantage and discrimination impacts on the experience of DA
- Explore the concept of power in relation to working in the field of DA
- Understand how the systems in which we work can generate risk towards survivors and their children
- Reflect on their own attitudes, beliefs and practice relating to DA
Module 2: Focus on perpetrators and children living with domestic abuse
- To increase awareness and understanding of the nature and impact of DA on children
- To increase awareness and understanding of perpetrators' behaviour and how they seek to extend their coercive and controlling behaviours over interventions by professionals and agencies
- To increase awareness of the potential negative effects on themselves of working in the field of DA
- To provide professionals with the opportunity to reflect on their attitudes, beliefs and practice and enable them to fulfil the role of a trusted professional
Module 3: Becoming a trusted professional
- Place the survivor at the heart of their response
- Establish a trusting relationship with the survivor
- Recognise and utilise opportunities for early intervention
- Create safe spaces for action for survivors
- Help survivors identify and use their own resources and exercise their rights
- Ask survivors what they need in the here and now
Suitable for
- Bournemouth University Framework: People identified in Group B1 - D
- Intercollegiate Framework level 3-5
This course will be suitable for anyone who comes into contact with victims of domestic violence and abuse, perpetrators and / or children living in families where domestic violence and abuse is occurring and who have significant, regular contact with victims and / or perpetrators and who might be expected, with training, to identify and respond to their initial support needs rather than immediately signpost or refer them to a specialist domestic violence and abuse service.
To attend this course, applicants must have previously attended a level 1 DVA awareness training course. You must have also previously attended a level 2 Domestic Violence and Abuse Ask and Act training course.
This course has been developed in collaboration with:
- DAPS multi-agency steering group
- Level 3 task and finish group
- Local survivors
- Women's Aid Federation of England
- Respect
