CHANGE
2005-2006 ANNUAL REPORT
The Section 9 Funded National Training Initiative
With the
consent of SWSI, work on the NTI occupied half the Director’s
time during this year (see below). In order to maximise the
effective use of working for the NTI just two days a week, the
Director diversified her efforts into including more
collaborative projects such as delivering training courses under
the auspices of the Forth Valley Partnership and Scottish
Women’s Aid; involvement in the National Training Strategy
working group; participating in organising the Scottish
Executive funded Amnesty International/Men’s Health Forum
conference in Dundee on 30th March; developing a DVD
training pack and organising the Scottish Practitioners’ Forum
in Falkirk. In addition, she accepted invitations to speak at
several national and international conferences. (See Chart 1).
Developing
the CDS
CHANGE has
continued working with
Edinburgh’s
DVPP, the SACRO Forth Valley Partnership and a number of
interested local authorities to develop a joint intervention
system for submission to the joint Prison and Community Justice
Accreditation Panel. Provisionally named the CDS (after CHANGE,
DVPP & SACRO) the system is designed to build on the experience
of the three main agencies involved in distilling best practice
from fifteen years’ of working with abusing men and their
partners as well as the developing knowledge about ‘what works’
in this area of work.
With the
consent of SWSI, from April 2005 the Director continued to
devote two days a week to this venture and further drafts of the
theory, and men’s programme manuals were again submitted, and a
presentation made to the panel in October 2005. The feedback
from the panel was constructive and encouraging and a further
funding bid has been submitted to the Justice Department to
allow the work to continue through 2006-7 with the goal of
completion by March 2007.
Producing a DVD of Stimulus Scenes
Over the last seven years CHANGE has found it difficult to
obtain suitable audio-visual training aids. The dearth of
relevant training audio-visual aids has also been a matter for
discussion in the National Training Strategy Group. The
CDS working group had also discussed the wish to develop filmed
stimulus scenes for use in the new men’s programme.
CHANGE was fortunate to be able to secure funding from the
Violence against Women Unit of the Scottish Executive to fund a
project which met both needs to some extent. Funding was
contingent upon DVD training packs with guidance notes being
made available free of charge to every local authority in
Scotland.
Working with the company Media Co-op, the CDS working group
proposed scenarios and assisted in developing scripts. While the
CDS group would have liked five scenarios, the budget ran to
three. Members of the working group also participated in a
workshop day for the actors and helped devise questions to be
used in ‘interviewing’ characters in role.
Following the production of the DVD, CHANGE coordinated a
working group comprising CHANGE, Scottish Women’s Aid, Forth
Valley Domestic Abuse Partnership and the Department of Applied
Social Science at Stirling University to develop the guidance
notes. CHANGE then produced the packs for distribution by the
National Training Coordinator. Further packs are now available
for CHANGE to sell to interested agencies to help defray the
overspend on the original budget. Information about these has
been disseminated through practitioners’ networks and will also
be posted on the CHANGE website
www.changeweb.org.uk.
CHANGE Section 9 Funding Exit Strategy
This will be our final year of Section 9 funding. CHANGE is
hopeful that our work will continue and develop in a number of
different areas.
Ø
The implementation of the Scottish Executive's Training
Strategy, - part of The National Strategy to Address
Domestic Abuse – has increased the demand for multi-agency
training on perpetrator awareness. Following work with Forth
Valley and Scottish Women’s Aid this year CHANGE anticipates
increasing collaboration with other agencies in undertaking this
type of training.
Ø
In addition, planning for ‘Training for Trainers’ courses has
been considered and work to develop these will commence this
year.
Ø
Once the CDS has been accredited there will be the need for
training in its implementation. We anticipate collaborating with
DVPP, Sacro/Forth Valley and possibly others in undertaking such
training.
Ø
CHANGE continues to be interested in developing non-criminal
justice routes for working with men although time constraints
have prevented pursuing this thus far.
Table 1
shows the developing involvement of LAs*
(Red LAs =
existing men’s programme and therefore do not require some
training courses)
|
Local Authority |
Planning
Meetings |
Awareness
Days |
Assessment
Plus SARA
(New Course 2005) |
Men’s
Programme |
Women’s
Services
(New Course 2005 ) |
Refresher
Days
(New Course 2005) |
|
Shetland |
1 |
1 |
None |
None |
None |
none |
|
Orkney |
1 |
2 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Western Isles |
1
(phone) |
None |
None |
1 |
None |
None |
|
Highland |
1 |
3 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Moray |
1 |
3 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Aberdeenshire |
1 |
4 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Aberdeen City |
1 |
3 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Angus |
1 |
2 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Dundee |
2 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
None |
None |
|
Perth&Kinross |
1 |
2 |
None |
1 |
None |
None |
|
Argyll |
2 |
2 |
None |
2 |
None |
None |
|
West
Dum’ton |
2 |
2 |
None |
2 |
None |
None |
|
East
Dum’ton |
1 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Fife |
4 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
|
Falkirk |
1 |
3 |
2 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Stirling |
1 |
4 |
1 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Clackmannan |
1 |
3 |
1 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Edinburgh |
N/A |
N/A |
1 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Midlothian |
None |
None |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
West
Lothian |
2 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
None |
None |
|
East
Lothian |
1 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Borders |
None |
None
|
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Dumfries & G |
4 |
2 |
None |
Planned 06 |
None |
None |
|
S’th
Ayrshire |
2 |
2 |
None |
1 |
None |
None |
|
East
Ayrshire |
1 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
N’th
Ayrshire |
None |
1 |
None |
1 |
None |
None |
|
Inverclyde |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
None |
|
Renfrewshire |
2 |
1 |
None |
1 |
1 |
None |
|
East
Ren’shire |
1 |
2 |
None |
None |
None |
None |
|
Glasgow |
7 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
None |
|
S’th
Lanarks |
6 |
2 |
None |
3 |
None |
None |
|
N’th
Lanarks |
5 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
None |
*
Submitted Progress Report for 2004/05 to SWSI
*
Developed a guidance pack for the NTI
*
Delivered consultancy to local authorities – 2 local
meetings plus numerous phone calls and emails
*
Presentations to local domestic violence forums - 2 held.
*
Delivered awareness-raising days for multi-agency
participation – 7 held (three under the auspices of Forth
Valley Domestic Abuse partnership, one for Scottish Women’s
Aid)
*
Delivered five-day courses as possible – 1 held
*
Upgraded the one day assessment and SARA training pack
*
Delivered assessment training – 3 held
*
Participated in the working group implementing the
National Strategy to Address Domestic Abuse in Scotland:
Training Strategy
*
Participated the National Training Strategy one day
Conference
*
Attended and ran workshops at two National Practitioners’
Network meetings
*
Chaired
three quarterly Executive Committee meetings of Respect and
attended one as a trustee
*
Participated in Respect’s Conference working group
*
Opened
Respect’s first International Conference at the British
Museum in London
*
Speaker
and workshop facilitator at a conference in Glasgow
organised by Neil Stewart Associates
*
Speaker
at a two day conference in Brno, Czech Republic on
developing work with perpetrators
*
Speaker
at a two day Conference in Istanbul on developing work with
perpetrators
*
Attended the ‘Raising the Standards’ Intergovernmental
Conference in Belfast
*
Speaker
and workshop facilitator at a Domestic Violence Conference
in Inverness
*
Participated in planning the Scottish Executive supported
Amnesty International and Men’s Health Forum Conference in
Dundee.
*
Facilitated a workshop at the Amnesty/Men’s Health Forum
Conference
*
Undertook training in the SAM Stalking assessment tool and
the B-Safer assessment tool
*
Contributed articles to the Respect newsletter
*
Organised the Scottish Forum for staff involved in
delivering men’s programmes and women’s service
*
Undertook a two-day training in parenting issues facilitated
by Fathers Direct
*
Undertook a one day training course in BME issues and
domestic abuse
*
Attended meetings of the Cross Party Group in the Scottish
Parliament on Men’s Violence to Women and Children
*
Attended meetings of the Action for Change Forum in Stirling
*
Organised 15th CHANGE AGM at Holyrood
hosted by Cathie Peattie MSP
*
Participated in the development of the CDS intervention
system with DVPP and Sacro/Forth Valley for the Scottish
Accreditation Panel
*
Secured
funding for and assisted in the development of a DVD of
stimulus scenes for domestic abuse training
