Elmore Community Services
Dear All
I am excited to let you know that Elmore’s domestic abuse service is expanding! We are currently in the process of increasing our staff team so that each Children and Family Centre will have one victim/survivor caseworker and one perpetrator caseworker imbedded within your locality teams. This will increase the support that we are able to offer across the county for families affected by domestic abuse and minimise the need for a waiting list for our support.
We are currently recruiting for these posts and we will provide an update for each team to follow for who your caseworkers will be, and the plans to cover vacancies where we have them. Until we have filled these posts the current process to request an intervention remains in place. Please send the attached (updated) Request form to DAElmore@oxfordshire.gov.uk and we will triage cases appropriately to ensure equity of support across the county.
As a reminder of our support, our domestic abuse service aims to provide a safe space for victim/survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse. We work with parents to identify their strengths and build on them, learn about the positive changes that they want to make, and support them to create lasting changes for themselves and their families. We are also developing a co-production approach with Oxfordshire parent carers to help inform our progress.
- For victim/survivors we provide one-to-one interventions focused on safety planning and empowering individuals to recognise and keep themselves safe from abusive behaviours. Our intervention aims to provide support and tools to support the following areas: keeping me and my family safe, developing insight into harmful behaviours, increasing self-worth, gaining independence and moving forwards.
Please note for victim/survivors that have been identified as high risk, individuals must be referred to an IDVA in line with the local MARAC protocol.
Our team will also be instigating a new victim/survivor support group soon. The Hope 2 Recovery programme is a 6-week group suitable for any adult that is experiencing, or has experienced, domestic abuse in the context of being a parent. We aim to roll this out in the new year and will be in touch to share more information on this soon.
- Our perpetrator caseworkers aim to challenge and address attitudes and beliefs that support and underpin abusive behaviours. Abusive parents will be enrolled on our Programme for Creating Change; a 16-week group programme underpinned by group work and peer-to-peer learning. These sessions focus on building understanding and skill development in communication skills, respect, conflict resolution, and accountability. Groups are delivered on a rolling basis so that individuals can join at any time. (Please note these interventions are available one to one but only in exceptional circumstances)
We aim to provide holistic support that is focused on keeping the children safe. To ensure this our victim/survivor and perpetrator caseworkers will work closely together to manage risk safely and share information effectively. It is crucial that our team are attending group supervisions to ensure holistic discussions about our shared clients. Please do invite our caseworkers to group supervision and we will prioritise attendance at these. Please note that all of our intervention work is uploaded to the adults’ workbook (and not the child’s) on LCS. All case interventions will be recorded on here for your information and will feed into group supervision updates.
Any questions please contact myself Kat Meadows (Service Manager), Becki Jakeman (DA Team Manager - Victim/survivors) or Emma Truby (DA Team Manager - Perpetrators). Becki and Emma will be visiting each team to share more about our interventions and the support on offer soon also.
All the best,
Kat
Kat Meadows (nee Moore) (she/her)
Service Manager
Elmore Community Services
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Tel: 07824 518364 | Office: 01865 200 130
Registered Charity No. 1090616
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