Our Mission
DVACT-PAI was created with the aim of using our professional expertise to help safeguard children from abuse. This is at the heart of everything that we do.
About Us
DVACT-PAI consists of an established team of independent experts who have worked together for many years, helping to keep children safe from domestic abuse across the UK.
As a trusted provider of expert Family Safety Assessments and Bespoke Interventions for parents in the family courts our independence means that we have the flexibility to deliver the most suitable interventions, to find creative and realistic means of managing risk and to devise the best treatment packages. We take a principled stance with the welfare of women and children at the centre of our concerns.
Our team
The DVACT-PAI Team
The DVACT-PAI team comprises expert assessors and treatment specialists with decades of experience in undertaking domestic abuse assessments and child protection interventions.
Our experts are drawn from a variety of relevant fields, including probation, mental health, social work and academia. We have a highly experienced team working across the UK to deliver high quality expert assessments and bespoke specialist programmes both for families in child protection measures and those involved in the family court processes.
Who we are
The DVACT-PAI team has many years of experience but remain passionate about our ideals that underpin our organisation.
DV-ACT was formed in 2018 by former members of the DVIP family court team and managed by founders Tracey Boylan and Claire Verney. In 2023 DV-ACT merged with Partner Abuse Interventions (PAI) to become DVACT-PAI.
PAI worked for 15 years as a pioneering organisation in developing and delivering risk assessment and risk management interventions in family cases.
As respected experts in the field of domestic abuse we set out our standards for child focused assessments and launched our register of experts in 2025.
Now as a much larger team spread across the UK we work together to help professionals protect the most vulnerable children in our society from abuse in the home.
Who we work with
Children's Services
DVACT-PAI have delivered services to over 60 different local authorities across the UK. Assessments and Programmes are available on a spot purchase basis at all stages of a case from early intervention to care proceedings.
Research evidence suggests that domestic abuse risk assessment is vital to child protection decisions benefiting both families and professionals involved.
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