Information for practitioners working in domestic violence and abuse

Training

We provide training for people who work with victims of domestic violence and abuse. Our training and briefings include:

• Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC)
• Quality Mark multi-agency and single agency training
• lessons learned from Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs)
  
• sessions for services working with adults and children
• health sector training
  

For more information about our training sessions please contact us.

You can also get domestic violence training from these national organisations:

• AVA – Against Domestic Violence and Abuse
• Karma Nirvana – supporting victims of honour-based abuse and forced marriage
  
• Respect – working with perpetrators, male victims and young people
• NSPCC
• Women’s Aid
  

Quality mark for services

You can work with us to achieve our Leeds domestic violence quality mark. It demonstrates the high quality of work your organisation does around domestic abuse and ensures you provide a consistent and high standard of service. For more information about the quality mark please contact us.

Making a MARAC referral 

You can refer a client or service user who is a high risk victim of domestic violence through our Making a MARAC referral for domestic violence.