Events
Lunch with CAFADA: 6 days of Innovation in Domestic Abuse
20th – 27th September 2024
Children and young people who live with domestic abuse are at risk of a range of negative mental health, educational and social outcomes. Despite increasing recognition of the impact of domestic abuse, we lack evidence on how to improve outcomes for children. Children, young people and their families tell us that there are too few good services to help children recover after domestic abuse. Although domestic abuse is recognised as a major public policy concern, there is wide variation in what services children can access across local authorities. Those who commission services tell us that there is not enough good evidence on what works in supporting children who have experienced domestic abuse.
Services are often encouraged to ‘innovate’ to address the needs of children and their families but what impact do these innovations have on children and their families? The CAFADA project has produced a series of case studies of innovative responses to domestic abuse. These include:
Safe and Together
Group interventions to support recovery: CEDAR, EYDAR and SPACE
Police and Criminal Justice responses
In these daily webinars we will share our findings and invite discussion on the implications these findings have for policy and for services in England and Scotland.
Webinars
Friday 20th September @ 12-1pm Please note, this webinar date has now changed and will be held on Friday 27th September at 1.15pm
This webinar introduces the series and presents the overarching findings in relation to innovations in a domestic abuse context.
Presenter: Professor Jane Callaghan
Monday 23rd September @ 12-1pm
This webinar focuses on understandings of children’s recovery after domestic abuse. While the negative impacts on children are well-documented, the pathways and processes for recovery are less understood. This session draws on qualitative data on children’s participation in the Cedar programme to elucidate the mechanisms and experiences of children’s recovery.
Presenter: Dr Fiona Morrison
Tuesday 24th September @ 12-1pm
Space: A Youth Work Intervention for children and young people impacted by domestic abuse.
This webinar focuses on Space, a youth work intervention for children and young people impacted by domestic abuse. The intervention involves free space, drop in and group-based support. Access to the service is not dependent on parental involvement with services. Our work with space has included interviews with young participants, support workers and other professionals, outcome measures and participatory activities.
Presenters: Professor Jane Callaghan, Laura Bellussi
Wednesday 25th September @ 12-1pm
Interfaces of Police, Social Care, and Education when supporting children and families affected by domestic abuse.
Focusing on the interfaces between police, social care, and schools, we discuss the challenges and successes of multi-agency collaboration, aimed at supporting children and families impacted by domestic abuse. The webinar provides insights into how these partnerships attempt to work together and whether such work amounts to innovation in this context. Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics and impacts of cross-sector collaboration in addressing domestic abuse.
Presenters: Professor Margaret Malloch, Dr Daniel Ash
Wednesday 25th September @ 1-2pm
Examining the role of court advocacy within the criminal justice system’s response to domestic abuse.
This webinar examines the role of court advocacy within the criminal justice system’s response to domestic abuse. By drawing on service data from Edinburgh Domestic Abuse Court Support (EDDACS) and using the concept of ‘social harm,’ the session explores how effectively the current legal system addresses the harms inflicted on women and children by domestic abuse. We explore the goals of court advocacy—specifically, to ensure that the needs and perspectives of victims are heard within the legal process—and the compatibility of these goals within our current legal system.
Presenters: Dr Fiona Morrison, Dr Alexandra Jundler, Professor Margaret Malloch
Thursday 26th September @ 12-1pm
Introducing a Participation Toolkit: sharing the learning about children, young people and women’s participation in domestic abuse research.
This webinar introduces our online Participation Toolkit that shares our frameworks, resources and tools for supporting participation in practice and research. We hope that you can use, share and adapt these for your own participation projects. Hear how we involved children, young people and women in the research process, in the services case studies, in making an impact, alongside reflections from young people, women, researchers, practitioners and policymakers about our challenges and successes.
Presenters: Dr Claire Houghton, Professor Kay Tisdall, Dr Camille Warrington, Dr Nadine Fowler
Thursday 26th September @ 1-2pm
Towards participatory measures: reflections on co-developing outcome measures with women and children with experience of domestic abuse.
This webinar explores the perspectives of two expert groups who engaged in a series of co-production workshops reviewing and developing outcome measures for our research. We know that funders, commissioners, services ‘require’ measures but what do measures offer service users? What are their perspectives on measures? Join us to discuss what victim-centred safety and well-being measures might be and to rethink future design and use alongside children and women.
Presenters: Dr Claire Houghton, Dr Camille Warrington
Friday 27th September @ 12-1pm
Safe & Together: What can we learn about seeking to introduce whole family approaches to address domestic abuse?
This webinar reports on the learning gained on the introduction of Safe & Together, a whole family approach to domestic abuse, into local authorities in England and Scotland. Such learning can help us to think about innovation and implementation in relation to services for children and families experiencing domestic abuse.
Presenters: Professor John Devaney, Professor Jane Callaghan, Dr Kelly Bracewell, Laura Bellussi
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When and where:
These webinars will be held online from Friday 20th to Friday 27th September. All webinars will be at 12pm and 1pm and will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.
Please contact laura.reid@stir.ac.uk if you have any queries.