CHANGE Accounting Day October 1993 Highland Hotel Stirling  Developing Accountable Practice   Accountability What is it?  - Executing responsible conduct to significant others - HART > a reckoning of behaviour               Why needed?           - Historically men not answerable for this  - Programmes must not endanger women  - Programmes should help as part of overall change   How do it?    - Process must be planned for Who are we accountable to?     Ø      to women, in general and in particular Ø      to Courts because we are a mandated programme Ø      to Probation because CHANGE is a condition Ø      to the community  because this is a sensitive issue:                              explanations, solutions etc Ø   to the men we are working with   Accountability to Women Ø      Through Project management Ø      Through CHANGE and Women's Aid  Policy Statement Ø      Through Programme Ø      Through monitoring and evaluation   Accountability to Partners Ø      Partner contact                                       - before man taken on                                       - once on the Programme                                       - information pack Ø      Liaison with other agencies                                       - Women's Aid                                       - Social Work   Accountability to Courts  Ø      Agreed procedures Ø      Written Reports  Ø      Representation on CHANGE Advisory  Group   Accountability to Probation  Ø      Agreed procedures                                             - referral                                                      - demarcation of  responsibility                                       - breach proceedings Ø      Liaison  (meetings/ correspondence/ phone calls) Ø      Written reports Ø      In-service training Ø      Project supervision   Accountability to the Community Ø      Monitoring  Men  §         Suitable/unsuitable  §         Individual progress Ø      Monitoring Programme      §         Programme content §         Feedback §         Assessment procedures Ø      Publicising issue of Domestic Violence Ø      Working with other agencies Ø      Formal Evaluation   §         Longer term effectiveness   Accountability  to men Ø      what do we offer Ø      what we can and cannot do Ø      expectations of them and selves (cf. Agreement &                    Rules)                A charitable company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No 183989             Scottish Charity No SCO18322          CHANGE acknowledges funding from the Scottish Executive