Benefits of the Leading Lights programme
The Leading Lights accreditation programme offers services, partner agencies and commissioners a set of standards for supporting victims of domestic abuse, with an overall aim of ensuring that the service is operating safely and effectively in supporting domestic abuse victims.
Leading Lights for commissioners
As a commissioner, Leading Lights helps you to develop a shared set of principles with service providers and partners, resulting in better, closer relationships and consistent, high quality standards across your area. Other benefits of Leading Lights are outlined below.
- Working with Leading Lights services ensures that families in your area receive the best service.
- Working with your existing service providers and asking them to gain Leading Lights status guarantees the quality of their services.
- Building your service specification around the Leading Lights quality standards ensures you commission quality services for local families.
Leading Lights for domestic abuse services
Leading Lights offers many benefits that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of domestic abuse services. The benefits of Leading Lights for services are confirmed by the excellent feedback received by accredited services, with many highlighting the invaluable support given by their Leading Lights coaches. Other benefits for services are explained below.
- Evidence the quality of your service: enabling you to make a stronger case for funding and to become commissioning ready.
- Support your service to provide the most effective response to keep victims safe.
- Improve morale: support staff to gain knowledge and confidence in their roles.
- Support partnership work: enabling you to develop a better relationship with commissioners.
- Develop consistency across different functions and sites.