Safeguarding children from domestic abuse with expert assessments consultancy and training
Our Services
Assessments
We provide expert domestic abuse assessments for children's services and the family courts. Completed on both perpetrators and victims, our assessments can be used in court and are noted for providing clarity and for helping to move complex and difficult cases forward, with treatment options and realistic risk management strategies.
Treatment Programmes
DV-ACT experts deliver one to one domestic abuse treatment programmes for vulnerable Mothers whose children are in child protection measures/ proceedings and also for perpetrators who are not suitable for a group work programme (e.g they need an interpreter, they are a female perpetrator). We also provide motivational work for those who are unsuitable due to denial/ minimisation.
Working With Children's Services
Recent figures show that domestic violence and abuse is the most common factor in child protection plans, it is clear that children’s services are continuing to come under increasing pressure to keep children safe from domestic abuse.
DV-ACT are here to assist you in making the best decisions for these families. Our experts can help where domestic abuse is a concern by providing expert domestic violence risk assessments, delivering practical training, offering consultations and providing a bespoke vulnerability programme for mother's.
About Us
DV-ACT are a team of domestic abuse experts, available throughout the UK, who have worked in the domestic abuse sector for many years.
Our assessors have decades of experience in the family court arena, both as specialist assessors and as expert witnesses. Our assessors are all educated to post graduate level and have at least ten years’ experience of specialist direct work with domestic abuse perpetrators and victims.
DV-ACT was formed with the aim of using our expertise to help safeguard children from abuse, this is at the heart of everything that we do.
What
people say
Local Authority Solicitor
“It (the assessment) supported the Local Authority's case with an expert view of the domestic abuse and confirmed our original concerns and assessment of the risks”
Local Authority Solicitor
“It (the assessment) supported the Local Authority's case with an expert view of the domestic abuse and confirmed our original concerns and assessment of the risks”