Domestic Abuse Training to Frontline Professionals in Gloucestershire

As part of our successful Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Bid to the Home Office, we have secured funding to conduct Voice of the Child training sessions for frontline officers within Gloucestershire Constabulary as it has been identified that there is the need to improve their understanding of the duty to safeguard children, improve confidence in obtaining evidence from children and ensure the child’s voice and lived experience is recorded and heard, especially in regards to children and young people experiencing and witnessing domestic abuse, and in requisite onward safeguarding referrals to partner agencies. Frontline staff also need confidence in identifying the signs of risk and types of harm faced by children, including exploitation.

As part of our successful Domestic Abuse Perpetrator bid to the Home Office, we have funding to conduct Domestic Abuse Suicide training sessions for frontline officers in Gloucestershire Constabulary. From feedback in our working groups to develop the bid, it was identified that training should be implemented that further increases expertise and the understanding of Domestic Abuse, supporting an improved police response that leads to more perpetrators being held to account for their actions and prevented from causing harm