Adva (against domestic violence and abuse) partnership in Devon
Who is in the adva team and what do they do?
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Roy Tomlinson job shares with Rachel Martin to lead the adva strategic work and manage the budget and commissioning services from providers. He is responsible for: work with children and sits as dva lead on the Devon Safeguarding Children Board; chairs the adva/bme task group; is link to the SEEDS group; oversees the management of the various contracts adva has for services and the multi-agency budget that funds the work; and for strategic management and development work. Tel: 0797 1677197 Email: roy.tomlinson@devon.gov.uk |
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Rachel Martin was appointed as adva manager in 2002 and works at a strategic partnership level. She is responsible for Specialist Domestic Violence Courts (Exeter and Barnstaple) Operational Groups; employer policy development; Repair; national and regional networking; marketing/pr; contract monitoring; data; health sub-group work for Devon Safeguarding Children's Board; management and supervision of project support team. Tel: 01392 382233 or 07815 563318 Email: rachel.martin@devon.gov.uk |
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Susannah Hunter was appointed adva Co-ordinator in October 2006. She is responsible for the co-ordination of consistent and best practice across: the 4 MARACs (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences) within Devon (Exeter; East and Mid Devon;, North Devon and Torridge and South and West Devon) via the Devon MARAC Steering Group, including MARAC data collection; Devon's IDVA (Independent Domestic Violence and Abuse Advisor) Service via Devon's 7 IDVAs; the 8 Local Authorities within Devon around DVA and Housing; input into the domestic violence and abuse sub-group work (around MARAC) for Devon's Safeguarding Children's Board; overall management of adva's multi-agency training courses including partnership agreements, quality assurance and course development. Tel: 01392 382233 or 07837 683 758 Email: susannah.hunter@devon.gov.uk |
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Claire Heaver is the office-based Project Support Officer, working on a part-time basis, who has been with adva since September 2006. She is responsible for providing administrative support for the adva team including responding to queries; arranging meetings and events; co-ordinating the adva newsletter; circulating information to the partnership; distributing leaflets; and dealing with invoice payments and queries. Adva Office Address: Adva Partnership, Devon County Council, Ground Floor Annexe, County Hall, Topsham Road, Exeter, EX2 4QD Tel: 01392 382233 Email: claire.heaver@devon.gov.uk |




