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Our blog posts provide expert analysis and advice on a range of subjects concerning domestic abuse. Designed for professionals working in children's social care, they will also offer more in-depth information about the services we provide.
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Launching Partner Abuse Interventions
DVACT-PAI launch a new wraparound assessment and treatment service enabling parents to demonstrate that they can make positive changes to behaviours of concern more quickly alongside an expert assessment

Claire Verney
Sep 18, 20256 min read
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Managing the Risk and Saving Money with Specialist Domestic Abuse Services
This article examines the strong rationale for expert services that can help to avoid the emotional and financial costs of care proceedings and child removals due to domestic abuse

Claire Verney
Sep 18, 20259 min read
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Suicide and Domestic Abuse: Recognising and Managing the Risk
Reports by Refuge estimate that three women a week die by suicide following domestic abuse, indicating that death by suicide has now overtak

Claire Verney
Mar 12, 20258 min read
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Turning Trauma into Triumph: New Book Launch
By speaking out and telling their stories domestic abuse sufferers can let those living with domestic abuse know that it is possible to over

Claire Verney
Dec 19, 20243 min read
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DV-ACT to Merge with PAI
August 2023 sees the merge of DV-ACT with PAI to become a leading provider of domestic abuse assessments and interventions in the UK.

Claire Verney
Aug 15, 20235 min read
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Teaching Children About Healthy Relationships: Launch of the Funky Frecks Children's Book
June 2023 sees the launch of a children's book that aims to educate children in a fun way about healthy and unhealthy friendships and prevent future domestic abuse victimisation. The Funky Frecks Relationships play a key part in every child’s wellbeing with healthy relationships helping children feel secure and supported, and unhealthy relationships having a long-lasting negative impact that can continue into adulthood. In the UK, primary schools must teach all young people h

Claire Verney
Jun 20, 20233 min read
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Domestic Abuse and the Johnny Depp V Amber Heard Trial
Using our experience of working with male and female, victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse to answer questions raised by the trial.

Claire Verney
Jun 9, 20228 min read
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The Groundbreaking New Programme for Mothers in Child Protection
2022 sees the launch of DV-ACTs new programme for mothers. Ground-breaking in the domestic abuse sector this programme uses bespoke treatmen

Claire Verney
Feb 3, 20225 min read
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DV-ACTION: Launching DV-ACTs Unique Bespoke Treatment Programmes
2022 sees the launch of a new division of DV-ACT to deliver bespoke specialist treatment programmes for parents in child protection measures. Launching DV-ACTION Programmes DV-ACT experts have used their decades of experience to develop the UK's first bespoke domestic abuse programmes delivered remotely for parents in child protection measures. Our programmes are designed to support effective change in parents particularly where there are complex needs, this is how: A child-c

Claire Verney
Jan 19, 20225 min read
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Children: hidden victims of the pandemic
What factors could have led to the tragic death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and what are the risks facing children since the pandmeic.

Claire Verney
Dec 8, 20218 min read
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