CHANGE 2005-2006 ANNUAL REPORT   Activities 2005-2006   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   *Numbers do not equal days as some meetings and training courses were undertaken with more than one authority at a time         . Chart 1 - Activities for 2005/06   *        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 *        Organised and participated in a working group devising the guidance notes for use with the DVD                  A charitable company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No 183989             Scottish Charity No SCO18322          CHANGE acknowledges funding from the Scottish Executive