‘Risk assessment for domestic abuse’ training in Scotland

Couse overview

Our ‘Risk assessment for domestic abuse training’ in Scotland is designed to strengthen knowledge of how to assess risk within domestic abuse cases.

This training focuses on our Dash risk checklist, which is a tool we developed for frontline professionals to identify and assess risks when domestic abuse, ‘honour’- based violence and/or stalking are disclosed by a potential victim.

This is an open course which is available to any professionals or volunteers who are looking to strengthen and deepen their understanding of risk and domestic abuse.

The course will focus on:

• Identify level of risk using the SafeLives Domestic Abuse Stalking and Honour-based Violence (Dash) Risk Identification Checklist.
• Link the Dash to safety planning.
• Understand proportionate and relevant information sharing.
• Consider how Marac/multi-agency working can facilitate risk management.