Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Campaign Resources and Information
The Home Office launched a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) campaign on 5 October 2018 to tackle this crime and protect vulnerable women and girls. The campaign will support our ongoing work to tackle FGM, which includes an ongoing programme of outreach… Read more »
Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)
The MARAC is a regular meeting to discuss how to help victims at high risk of murder or serious harm. A domestic abuse specialist (IDVA), police, children’s social services, health and other relevant agencies all share information about the victim, th… Read more »
Domestic Violence Resource Centre – What’s Ok At Home
The Domestic Violence Resource Centre have created the ‘What’s Ok At Home’ website to help people understand what family violence is, why it happens, how to recognise it and how to help others who are experiencing it. The website allows individuals to;… Read more »
NHS Adult Safeguarding Best Practice Guidance
The Best Practice Guidance was developed to support practitioners recognise incidents of abuse that must be taken through the safeguarding processes, and differentiate those from incidents that should be case or risk managed, or taken through other rou… Read more »
55+ Safety Net Campaign
Domestic abuse is never acceptable, whatever your age. In the last few years there has been a sharp increase in the number of reported incidents of domestic abuse by people over 55. In response to this increase we have launched a countywide campaign to… Read more »
NHS England: Learning and Development Opportunities
The NHS England website provides details of learning courses; some of the training is provided by NHS England, or their partners, and some training is provided by other organisations. There are a range of online options but they also offer face-to-face… Read more »
NHS Employers Domestic Abuse Policy
A draft domestic abuse policy for NHS Trusts to adapt, which ties in with existing violence and aggression policies, is available on the Health and Wellbeing section of the NHS Employers website (www.nhsemployers.org). This policy has been produced in… Read more »
Promoting Recovery in Mental Health
AVA was awarded funding from the Department of Health Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development (IESD) fund to deliver PRIMH (PromotingRecovery in Mental Health). PRIMH provide intensive support to two mental health trusts to implement a change… Read more »
Report: A Cry for Health
The findings of SafeLives’ research, which provides evidence from over 4,000 victims supported in hospital and community settings, show that we are missing opportunities to identify victims of domestic abuse – particularly the most vulnerable – and tha… Read more »
Disability and Domestic Abuse
This document improves understanding of the complexities of disabled people’s experiences of domestic abuse and promotes consideration of these complexities within the public health system. It also supports local and national action, and provides guida… Read more »
DoH: Health Professionals Policy and Resource Guidance
To help all NHS staff and allied healthcare partners in their response to victims of domestic violence and abuse. This resource looks at how health professionals can support adults and young people over 16 who are experiencing domestic abuse, and depen… Read more »
Online Training Resources for NHS Staff
E-learning for healthcare (E-LfH) is a Health Education England programme operating in partnership with the NHS and other professional bodies, and provides a range of e-learning resources for NHS staff across a variety of topics. NHS Improvement Websit… Read more »
Female Genital Mutilation Standards for Training Healthcare Professionals
NHS organisations have statutory guidance and responsibilities to make sure that staff are appropriately training in relation to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). These training standards set out on NHS England’s website address this: Female Genital Mut… Read more »
SET DA Training Competency Framework
The SET Domestic Violence and Abuse Competency Framework sets out the expectations the SET DA Board has of organisations in relation to achieving the domestic abuse competencies needed depending on the role, training and resources available within agen… Read more »