Domestic Abuse Practitioner Standard (DAPS) Level 3

This course is designed for professional working with those impacted directly by domestic abuse,

It takes place face-to-face over 3 consecutive days, a week apart along with a future teams session. Please ensure you can commit to all dates before booking.

• Module 1: Gender, Power and Domestic Abuse
• Module 2: Focus on perpetrators and children living with domestic abuse
• Module 3: Becoming a Trusted Professional

In order to attend you must commit to availability at each of the sessions, so please consider your capacity carefully, with discussion with your manager. Non-attendance to one session will result in having to start the course again.

Level 3 course aims:

• To assist professionals to build trusting relationships with survivors of domestic abuse by increasing their knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to fulfil the role of a trusted professional.
• To increase professionals’ understanding of the impact of trauma on survivors of domestic abuse and their children and enable them to work with survivors in a trauma informed, strengths-based, needs-led way.
• To increase professionals’ awareness and understanding of the nature and impact of domestic abuse on children.
• To increase professionals’ awareness and understanding of perpetrators’ behaviour and how they seek to extend their coercive and controlling behaviours over interventions by professionals and agencies.
• To provide professionals with the opportunity to reflect on their attitudes, beliefs and practice relating to domestic abuse.