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)
