1) Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, how much money was spent on domestic abuse related training for council staff, if any?
Nothing was spent by the Children’s Social Care Academy or the Devon Safeguarding Children’s Partnership.
The Communities Team did commission some training during this period on the following topics:
Intersectionality & Cultural Competence
So called Honour Abuse Training
Anti-Racial Practice
No Recourse to Public Funds as a Weapon of Abuse Training
Using Pets as a form of Coercive Control
It would not be possible to quantify cost of this training as it was offered to professionals from both the voluntary sector and the statutory sector including Council staff and was offered as whole system training.
In 2021 Devon County Council commissioned North Devon Against Domestic Abuse (NDADA) to develop two eLearning packages on Domestic Abuse. These packages are available to all Council staff.
2) Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, which external organisations were used to deliver domestic abuse related training to council staff, if any?
Intersectionality & Cultural Competence – H.O.P.E Consultancy
So called Honour Abuse Training – H.O.P.E Consultancy
Anti-Racial Practice – H.O.P.E Consultancy
No Recourse to Public Funds as a Weapon of Abuse Training – The Olive Project
Using Pets as a form of Coercive Control – Refuge4pets
3) Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, how much money was spent on Domestic Abuse related training for social workers?
Social workers have had access to the above training offers and also have access to the Domestic Abuse eLearning packages which are available to all staff. Social workers also have access to training provided through partnership activity – for example through training sessions offered through the 16 Days of Action.
4) Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, please list the names of any domestic abuse related training that was provided to council staff.
The aforementioned eLearning packages are available to all Council staff.