• Login
• Register

• All Events
• Early Help
• Elearning modules
• HSCP Commissioned Courses
• HSCP Conferences
• HSCP Training
• Internal Training Course
• Training (Commissioned) Course
• Webinar
• Workshop

HCA- Domestic Abuse: Engaging with families, assessing risk and supporting change - promoting critically reflective practice - 2-day in-person event

This training course is the 2nd of our domestic abuse programme aimed at social workers. You must have completed the half day  "Identifying and Responding to Coercive Control " session before attending this one. 

Then you must book onto the 3rd and final session on the "Dash checklist"

Learning Outcomes:

 

1. Increase knowledge of the dynamics within  relationships where abuse is present and the differing typologies of violence and abuse professionals may encounter within families
2. Increase understanding of the range of effects of domestic abuse on children and young people as victims of domestic abuse within their own right
3. Enhance understanding of how domestic abuse affects parenting, both perpetrator and victim/survivor, and how professionals may approach parenting assessments
4. Consider the competing agenda and the contradictory messages that are sometimes delivered in practice by services working with domestic abuse, child protection and safeguarding children
5. Consider both the professional responsibility to be curious about the dynamics within family relationships, and the opportunities for professionals to hold perpetrators to account
6. Develop knowledge of evidence-based risk factors for domestic homicide and/or serious harm to victim/survivors and children including the use of professional judgement
7. Develop confidence in the practical application of risk assessment and safety planning in relation to both adults, children, and perpetrators of domestic abuse
8. Increase understanding of safe approaches when working with dual allegations of domestic abuse
9. Develop skills and knowledge to work effectively with families to support them to safeguard their children, including motivating both the abusive and non-abusive parent

This two-day course focuses on working with families where domestic abuse and safety is a key concern. Professionals will be encouraged to apply a level of critical thinking to complex situations which require an evidence-based approach, whilst also remaining person centred. In order to assess risk and support change professionals need to be supported within a multi-agency approach. This course will consider the benefits of working in this way whilst also considering common challenges and how individuals may affect change.  
There will be a focus on how professionals can avoid inadvertent victim blaming (even at an implicit level) to enable the creation of a safe and productive professional relationship with the non-abusive parent.
Crucially, this training will provide expert input and practical tools to support professionals to have conversations with perpetrators of domestic abuse to hold them accountable whilst always maintaining a focus on risk and safety.

Dates