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The Whole Picture: pilot evaluation

Report on the cultural change training programme pilot for children’s social care professionals

Domestic Abuse: The Whole Picture cultural change training programme was delivered in Norfolk, Suffolk and West Sussex from June 2019 to March 2020. This pilot programme was delivered to frontline children’s social care professionals and funded by the Home Office.

We developed and ran:

  • four two-day Train the Trainer sessions and an online webinar for 32 local trainers and 33 SafeLives trainers
  • 41 frontline sessions, attended by 602 learners
  • training for 34 mentors, across three sessions.

This report evaluates the programme, setting out the policy context and case for training, the methodology used in evaluation and provides a descriptive and visual overview of the training delivered and reported outcomes from learners and trainers.

  • 92%

    of learners understood the stages of change victims experience

    and how this impacts on their experience

  • 90%

    had a good understanding of the different types of abuse

    including economic abuse

  • 80%

    felt they had a good understanding of how perpetrators

    might try to manipulate them as frontline practitioners

Key findings

It is clear from feedback from children’s social care professionals that they would act differently as a result of what they had learned, experienced and discussed. The programme provided a challenging and thought provoking experience that would lead to changes in how they think, behave and act.

  • 75% of learners felt training would help them respond to victims in a more informed way
  • 92% of learners understood the stages of change victims experience, and how this impacts on their experience
  • 81% of learners were willing to recommend the training to a colleague
  • 74% of learners felt the training would have a positive impact on how they perform their role
  • 90% of respondents had a good understanding of the different types of abuse, including economic abuse
  • 75% of respondents reported high levels of knowledge of the best questions and communication techniques to use with victims
  • 80% of respondents felt they had a good understanding of how perpetrators might try to manipulate them as frontline practitioners

 

I will have more confidence in how I respond to families, victims/perpetrators/children...confidence to use a more family led response.

DA: Whole Picture learner

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