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Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control (Module 1)

Venue
Webinar: Zoom, Webinar
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Event Tutors
Learning and Development
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Target Audience
Adopters / Childminders / Connected Carers / Foster Carers / Pre-Schools & Nurseries / Schools / Short Break Carers / Social Care Staff / Voluntary Sector Workers
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Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adopters and Foster Carers / Children and Young People / Safeguarding
Adopters and Foster Carers subcategories
CS2 - Safeguarding and Child Protection
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care / Early Years / Safeguarding Children
Safeguarding subcategories
Safeguarding Children
Event description
This 1-day course will build on delegates’ learning from the Awareness of Domestic Violence and Abuse e-learning module which should be completed before attending this course. The Intermediate training day will provide additional content as set out below.
Learning outcomes
1. Increase awareness of the insidious nature of domestic abuse and the invisibility of coercion and control.
2. Provide information about the prevalence and statistics of domestic abuse
3. Increase confidence to be professionally curious and to ask about domestic abuse in a way that makes it easier and safer for people to disclose.
4. Increase understanding of victims’ responses to domestic abuse including why they may stay in an abusive relationship
5. Explore the links between pregnancy and domestic abuse and the impacts on children both pre-birth and at various stages of development
6. Consider the professional responsibility for positively impacting the resilience of children
7. Explore the additional impacts on people from marginalised groups including adults with support and care needs, older people and LGBT and minority communities
8. Highlight the need for a multi-agency approach and roles of agencies in relation to risk identification and management
9. Provide information of how to refer to relevant services when appropriate, including referral to local and national specialist services for victims and perpetrators.
Start Date
Thursday 24 September 2020
End Date
Thursday 24 September 2020
Closing Date
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Times
09:30 - 16:00
Maximum Places
16 
Cost
£80.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No