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London Pilot of Barnardos Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Training - 2009 update on findings

Following the 2008 seminar on the emerging findings from those boroughs piloting Barnardos' DV risk assessment training as part of their implementation of the London procedure for safeguarding children abused through domestic violence, the London Board held a follow up event to on May 13th 2009 to look at progress over the following 12 months – which included independent evaluations from three of the pilot areas and emerging findings from a number of other boroughs. All papers and presentations from the day are available to download via the links below:

Programme
Update on Barnardos domestic violence work in London (Vivienne Springer, Barnardos)
Evaluation of Barnardo’s domestic violence model in London (Martin C. Calder, Calder Training and Consultancy)
Safeguarding children abused through domestic violence: the Barnet experience (Helen Elliott and Lauren Scordilis, Barnet)
Bromley Barnados DV Training 2009 (Nicky Brownjohn, Bromley PCT)
Barnardo’s DVRAM Barking & Dagenham Pilot (Emma Gray, Barking and Dagenham)

London Pilot of Barnardos Northern Ireland Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Training - 2008 update on findings

In May 2008, three London boroughs - Barking and Dagenham, Barnet and Hammersmith and Fulham, were piloting Barnardos' full domestic violence risk assessment training programme as part of implementation of the domestic violence response in each borough. On Tuesday May 6th 2008, the London Board held a seminar on the emerging findings from the pilots, and all papers and presentations from the day are available to download via the links below:

Programme
Maddie Bell - Description of the Northern Ireland model and its relationship with the London Procedure for Safeguarding Children Abused Through Domestic Violence
Briony Ladbury - Domestic violence, health service perspective
Martin Calder - Domestic violence risk assessment: messages from Northern Ireland and Barnet pilot evaluations

The London procedure for safeguarding children abused through domestic violence

The London procedure for safeguarding children abused through domestic violence has now been approved by the London Safeguarding Children Board, and is available to download via the link below:

Safeguarding children abused through domestic violence
Safeguarding children abused through domestic violence - appendix 1: risk assessment matrix

This procedure should assist any professional and volunteer whose work brings them into contact with children and their families, to prioritise the needs of a child/ren, assess the risk of harm to the child/ren (taking into consideration the needs of their parents / carers) and respond appropriately in sharing information, referring on etc.

The Barnardos Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Training

For more information on the Barnardos risk assessment training and matrix, please contact Vivienne Springer at vivienne.springer@barnardos.org.uk (tel: 020 8981 4924, mobile: 07908 493 225). This training supports implementation of the London procedure for safeguarding children abused through domestic violence - please see below for details of this training.

Barnardos domestic violence risk assessment training