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Conflict or Violence in the Home

Conflict or Violence in the Home

This section contains information about support with domestic violence, harmful parental conflict, emergency accommodation and many more sources of advice and information for families experiencing violence or conflict 

IMPORTANT: If you are at risk of injury or harm in your home, you can leave the house.  The government guidance is clear that you can do this and that the social distancing regulations do not apply if you need to leave the home to escape risk of injury or harm.  

Restart

Restart is a programme for lower/medium risk perpetrators causing harm in families, to prevent continued abuse. The programme offers a co-ordinated
multi-agency response including:

  •  4 weeks of specialist early intervention case management and assessment
    for those causing harm
  • integrated support for adult victim/survivors
  • accommodation pathways and models for perpetrators to give families the option to stay at home
  • Supported referral onto a Respect Accredited DVPP (Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme) where needed

Early help and Children Social Care can refer to Restart, where some or all these 'risk markers' are present: 

  •  Verbal arguments
  • Early signs/onset of controlling behaviours (e.g. isolation from friends and/or family, made to account for time)
  • Perpetrator asked to leave and refused
  • Monitoring (phone checking, questioning children on partner’s activities)
  • Dispute over child contact
  • First physical assault
  • Damage to property
  • Anger issues.

If unsure if a case is appropriate, please contact [email protected] for a case consultation, or contact Camden's perpetrator lead Rupert Bagenal (on Outlook).

The perpetrator and survivor must both consent before a referral is made.

You can find the Restart referral form here

And a range of leaflets:

More about the Restart programme on Cranstoun's website here Restart - Cranstoun

 

Drive

Drive works with high-harm perpetrators to reduce abuse and increase victim/survivor safety. Drive can work with people of any gender who are aged seventeen and over. The abuse can be against an intermate partner, an ex-partner, or family member. Drive service users are often experiencing multiple-disadvantage. They are often serial offenders who are deemed to cause the most harm.

The programme uses a whole-system approach using an intensive case management system alongside a coordinated multi-agency response. The intervention is individually tailored and can be composed of support work, behaviour change, and disruption actions.

Service users will be allocated a case manager to work with throughout the length of the intervention (the support offered can range from 3 – 12 months).The case manager will coordinate behaviour change, support, and disruption actions.

Referral to the Drive programme is only through Camden MARAC. 

If you would like to discuss a case’s suitability, you can arrange to have a consultation with one of the Drive team. Email [email protected]

To find out more about Drive, contact Camden perpetrator lead Rupert Bagenal (on Outlook). 

To find out how to refer to MARAC, contact Aboingile Nkohla (on Outlook)

There is a leaflet about Drive here 

 

Respect

Respect offers support for people who are perpetrating violence or abuse who want to think about how to change their behaviours. Details below:

https://respectphoneline.org.uk/

 

Caring Dads (for fathers who have been abusive)

Caring Dads is for male carers with children aged 0-16 who have displayed unhealthy behaviours towards their partners or children and who would benefit from learning child-centred parenting strategies.  Over 17 weeks, fathers consider:

  • how their behaviour as a parent can be affected by their own childhood experiences of parenting
  • what emotionally unhealthy, controlling or violent behaviour between/towards parents feels like for a child 
  • what children need from their dads to improve and strengthen their relationship
  • skills to manage frustrating situations in healthy ways
  • how to rebuild trust with children and plan for the future

There are some eligibility criteria for the programme. Male carers need to have:

  • some level of acknowledgment of their past abusive behaviour
  • regular contact with their child
  • an identified worker who will be supporting them for duration of programme

Please note that this is not a perpetrator programme but may be helpful to fathers or male carers who have been displayed unhealthy behaviours. 

Mothers will be allocated a Women’s Safety Officer throughout the duration of the programme.

Please obtain consent from male carers and send this referral form (includes a risk assessment) following consultation with Gosia Kidawska or Jess King, to [email protected] with the most recent Assessment/CIN/CP report included. Please note that father must have had sight of the referral prior to intake meeting.

Here is a leaflet about the Caring Dads programme Caring Dads Leaflet and a short video about the programme here Caring Dads by Kids First - Bing video

 

Last updated: 23 January 2024