This is issue 37 of the Reducing the Risk e-bulletin.All information contained in this e-bulletin will be available on the Reducing the Risk website. Please use the website as your first port of call for information, advice and support regarding domestic abuse. Please feel free to forward this e-bulletin to anyone you consider would benefit from receiving this information.
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1. Domestic Abuse Champions’ Meetings and Training Sessions
2. The Recovery Toolkit
3. Stalking : New Legislation from 25th November
4. CEOP launches new International Child Protection Certificate
5. Staying Safe - Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board Newsletter
6. Teenage Rape Prevention Campaign
7. Women’s Aid - Come together for 16 Days of Action Sunday 25th November to Monday 10th December 2012
8. STOP HATE UK Launch
9. Supported Housing and Universal Credit – help for those in refuge
10. Publication : Evaluation of ESF/DWP families with multiple families/troubled families initiative – A feasibility study
11. Picking up the pieces: domestic violence and child contact
12. Funding: for small criminal justice charities
13. News: Society still struggles to act on violence against women
14. News: Wiltshire appeal over domestic abuse
15. News : Pet cruelty 'warning sign' of domestic violence
16. Child support agency changes threaten women already living in fear
17. Research on psychological wellbeing, University of Oxford
18. Promising practices: Mental Health Trust responses to domestic violence (2012)
19. Community Action and Leadership, Banbury, starts 11 January 2013
20. Managing Volunteers, accredited with the ILM, 26 Feb & 5 March 2013
21. Freedom Programme Training 2013
22. Get a head of the curve……sign up for the New and Innovative Stalking Masterclass led by Laura Richards and a team of experts
23. Tackling child abuse linked to faith or belief
24. Changing Perpetrator Behaviour: The Necessity, The Possibility and The Reality - 29 November
25. Training Films for survivors of Domestic Violence
26. A very important message from the Refuge
1. Domestic Abuse Champions’ Meetings and Training Sessions
Community Champion Training ( 2 full days)
The next training will be on:
7th- 8th March 2013 at Banbury Early Intervention Hub, New Futures Centre, Hilton Road,
Banbury, OX16 OEJ
Schools Champion Training
24th January 2013 - 9.30 – 3.30
8th February 2013 - 9.30 – 3.30
Please book via Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board Website
http://learning.oscb.org.uk/page.php?currentpageref=137
Champion Refresher Training (1 day)
10th January 2013 at South Oxfordshire and
16th April 2013 at Cottsway Housing, Witney.
Please book soon if you would like to attend by contacting
Network Meetings
12th December 9.30 – 12.30 Banbury Hub
22nd January 2013 9.30 – 12.30 Cottsway Housing, Witney
27th February 2013 9.30 - 12.30 SW Oxfordshire Early Intervention Service, The Net, Abingdon
Details will be on the Reducing the Risk web site.
Any contributions or suggestions for speakers or offers of venues for Network Meetings would be gratefully received. Just e mail me
2. The Recovery Toolkit
An exciting new group programme for women who have experienced domestic abuse/violence.
Sue Penna Associates is facilitating a two day course to enable individuals to be able to deliver this exciting and new group programme for women recovering from domestic abuse/violence.
The training is aimed at individuals working in this sector who would like to deliver a group programme to women who have experienced domestic abuse/violence.
The Recovery Toolkit uses a psycho educational model believing that by giving individuals knowledge we enable them to better understand and deal with their previous experiences. The individuals own strengths, resources and coping skills are reinforced contributing to their own health and wellness on a long term basis.
The Recovery Toolkit is unique as it provides the facilitator with
· Recovery Toolkit manual including guidance for facilitators
· Weekly session plans to run the group over 12 or 24 weeks
· Evaluation tools to monitor client progress and demonstrate effectiveness of group
· All handouts for sessions which can be easily photocopied
· National Open College Network Accreditation enabling women to gain a recognized Level 1 certificate in ‘Developing personal confidence and self awareness’( * This does incur a fee per person )
Added value of the Recovery Toolkit
· Has been formally evaluated using recognized assessment tools with a high percentage success rate for individuals increasing their self esteem and assertiveness beliefs.
· To be able to deliver the Recovery Toolkit and use the Manuel all facilitators have undertaken two days training ensuring standards and consistency of delivery.
Training outline
Day 1 / Introduction to group work skillsManaging Challenging Participants
Introduction to Recovery Toolkit,
Day 2 / Using the Recovery Toolkit, practice and questions
How to manage OCN accreditation
All participants receive a copy of the Recovery Toolkit and Certificate of License to use it. (Unauthorized use of the Recovery Toolkit can be an infringement of copyright)
Links below for:
Booking Form
General Flyer
3. Stalking : New Legislation from 25th November
On International Women’s Day (8 March 2012) the Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced that the Government would be introducing a specific criminal offence of stalking. The relevant amendments to the Protection of Harassment Act 1997 were debated at the third reading stage of the Protection of Freedoms Bill on 12 March 2012 and again when the Bill returned to the Commons on 19 March 2012. The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012, and the relevant provisions are due to come into force on 25 November 2012.
The Prime Minister’s announcement followed a campaign by a number of organisations, including Protection Against Stalking, which led to a unique “Independent Parliamentary Inquiry” by the Justice Unions’ Parliamentary Group. Their report, published in February 2012, found that victims of stalking had a profound lack of confidence in the criminal justice system, and recommended that the 1997 Act be amended as part of a package of reforms. The shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called for a similar change in the law at the Labour Party Conference in September 2011. The Government published a consultation document on stalking in November 2011; the consultation closed on 5 February 2012
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Full document from House of Commons
Home Office circular 018/2012 : A change to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997: introduction of two new specific offences of stalking
4. CEOP launches new International Child Protection Certificate
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) are launching a new international child protection certificate. CEOP worked with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Criminal Records Office (ACRO) to launch the International Child Protection Certificate (ICPC), which CEOP believes is a vital new tool for schools and other overseas organisations in the prevention of harm to children under their care. Applications can be made at www.acro.police.uk/icpc.
Similar to the UK’s CRB system, the ICPC is a police check for UK nationals who are travelling and working overseas. It will help identify and screen out those who have previous convictions that make them unsuitable to be working with children.
The ICPC will allow international schools and other organisations who work directly with children abroad to be able to access the criminal conviction history of UK citizens and those who have resided in the UK for any period of time. This will enable overseas schools and other organisations to assess an applicant’s suitability to be working with children. The ICPC can also be requested for those UK nationals already in paid or voluntary employment in other countries, including the estimated 74,000+ UK teachers who currently work in international schools around the world.
The certificate, which takes approximately 10 days to process, can be applied for from anywhere in the world and will help to ensure that working abroad is not seen as an ‘easy option’ for those who are not suitable to work with children in the UK but who may otherwise seek to travel overseas to abuse children. Click link below:
CEOP launches new International Child Protection Certificate
5. Staying Safe - Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board Newsletter
Please see the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board Newsletter below. Please disseminate to your colleagues within your organisation and teams.
This issue:
· Winterbourne View Hospital
· Self Care Week
· OSAB Annual Report
· Hate Crime
· Policy, procedures & guidance
· Training and development
· OSAB commissioning standards
· Making a referral
· Contact the board
· Contribute to Staying Safe
The newsletter is also available on the Safe from Harm website - click here to view
6. Teenage Rape Prevention Campaign
Please see links below for
the Campaign Brief for the Teenage Rape Prevention campaign.
As you may be aware the campaign first ran in March earlier this year and we are due to re-launch the campaign at the end of November. Campaign advertising runs from 1 December 2012 through January 2013.
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This campaign brief has been developed to provide you with information on the 'Teenage Rape Prevention' campaign and direct you to support materials which will enable you to support the campaign in your local areas and to raise awareness of these issues with teenagers.
See also the 'Teenage Rape Prevention' campaign media schedule.
Kerry Charlesworth
Crime, Drugs and Alcohol Strategic Communications
Home Office tel: 020 7035 6386 email:
7. Women’s Aid - Come together for 16 Days of Action Sunday 25th November to Monday 10th December 2012
Sunday 25th November 2012 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and marks the start of the 16 Days of Action to End Violence Against Women.
We are asking our supporters to come together and support us during the 16 Days of Action from Sunday 25th November to Monday 10th December, which is National Human Rights Day. Why not come together and share a meal on Monday 10th December? You could incorporate into your work day work by holding it at lunch time, and popping up a sign up sheet asking your colleagues to take part in your lunch time feast. You can make a set donation to come to Women's Aid to join, and ask each person to bring a homemade dish, for you all to share - you could even aim to get 16 different dishes!
You could also have a feast in your home on Sunday 25th November, invite your friends/family round asking each to make a donation to Women's Aid, to enjoy a home cooked meal together with everyone bringing a different dish. It is the perfect way to spend time together and reflect on eliminating violence against women and girls, and bringing peace as this years global theme for 16 Days of Action is from peace in the home, to peace in the world, from the words of one woman activist "How can we have peace in the world when there is war at home."
Contact Faye for a fundraising pack for your day of coming together either by e-mail or on 0117 915 7451. We would love to hear all about your day!
If you have another idea that you would like to do for the 16 Days of Action or if you would like some inspiration of other activities that you could be doing each day please follow this link to our website.
8. STOP HATE UK Launch
Oxfordshire County Council has been facilitating a new approach to hate crime with Oxfordshire district council partners and Thames Valley Police. This new approach has been to introduce across the County a 24 hour free phone helpline for victims and witnesses of hate crime. The helpline is run by the national charity Stop Hate UK and was formally launched in Oxfordshire on 5th November 2012.
Hate Crime is defined by the Home Office as “any incident which constitutes a criminal offence, which is perceived by the victims or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hate.”
A hate incident is “any incident which may nor may not constitute a criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hate.” Hate Crime can be based on race, disability, sexual Orientation, gender-identity, religion and/or belief – these are known as hate crime strands. Hate crime or incidents can happen because of hostility, prejudice or hate and can include things like name calling, bullying and harassment, damage to property, graffiti, emails and text messages.
How do I report a hate crime?
Nobody should suffer hate crime because of who they are and nobody should put up with it.
You CAN do something about it.
You may be the victim of incidents such as verbal abuse and threats, damage to your property, bullying or rude gestures. If you have experienced any of these, you can report it to Stop Hate UK by various different methods:
· The 24 hour helpline 0800 138 1625.
· Text Relay 18001 0800 138 1625
· Chat www.stophateuk.org/talk
· Online form www.stophateuk.org/tell
· Post Stop Hate UK, PO Box 484, LS7 9BZ
· Or visit www.stophateuk.org
· Twitter @stophateuk
· Facebook Stop Hate UK
You can always report hate crime to the police. The non-emergency number is 101. If you are in immediate danger ring 999.
Who is Stop Hate UK?
Stop Hate UK is a national charity that offers trained helpline operators who will listen to victims or witnesses of hate crime and supports them through any incidents that have taken place. Victims can be fully confident that all calls are confidential and it is completely up to them what sort of help and support they need.
What happens next?
· When an incident is reported you will be asked if you want help from the police, Victim Support or the local ASB team.