See answers to previous information requests

Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request the following information:

1. Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, how much money was spent on domestic abuse related training for council staff, if any?
£3,460 from domestic abuse funds as well as an additional £600 contribution made from DA funds for DASH and DA and LD training (commissioned / funded by ASC /CSC jointly)
(Many training sessions arranged by the DA Coordinator did not have a cost attached).

2. Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, which external organisations were used to deliver domestic abuse related training to council staff, if any?
Kaleidoscopic UK; Thames Valley Partnership; Oxford Against Cutting; ARC (Association for Real Change); Hope Consultancy; Three Sixty Degree Consultancy; Aurora New Dawn; Shelter; SignHealth; Cranstoun DA service; University researchers; Biele Consultancy; BRAVE; NPCC; National Cyber Security Centre; South East Councils.

3. Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, how much money was spent on Domestic Abuse related training for social workers?
• Childrens Safeguarding Universal Level 2 & Professionals Safeguarding Level 3 sessions Safeguarding Children training 23/24 £1640 and 24/25 £1,480.
• Adult Safeguarding Level 1 23/24 £0 and 24/25 £0.
• Adult Safeguarding Level 2 23/24 £1950 and 24/25 £3250.
• Adult Safeguarding Level 3 23/24 £1950 and 24/25 £0.
• DASH training 23/24 £1600 and 24/25 £1700.
• DASH reflective session 24/25 £300.
• ASC SG Bite size 24/25 £0.
• Chronic alcohol/addiction dependency support- Level 1 ASC 24/25 £0.
• Chronic alcohol/addiction dependency support- Level 2 ASC 24/25 £0.
• Chronic alcohol/addiction dependency support- Level 3 ASC 24/25 £0.
• DASH and Marac- Intro to risk assessment 24/25 £0.

*MRC (Making Research Count) annual subscription £5488.00 per annum shared costing between CSC and ASC – unfortunately we cannot reflect the DA element of this as the subscription covers a wide area of social care practice and research.

* The annual cost for the CCI adult platform was £13738.50 for the current year (it runs per calendar year rather than fiscal year)- The platform covers many areas as well as DA so, like MRC payments it would be difficult to attribute the proportion of funds linking directly to the Domestic Abuse element.

4. Between the dates of 1st April 2023 to the present day, please list the names of any domestic abuse related training that was provided to council staff
• Animal abuse as strategy for DA
• Avoiding victim blaming language
• Childrens Safeguarding Universal Level 2
• Civil Court Injunctions
• DA and impact on children
• DA and Learning Disabilities
• DA and Suicide
• DA as it affects those with sight issues
• DA Awareness
• DA blind / sight loss victims
• DA Stalking, Harassment and Cyber Security
• DA supporting victim/survivors
• DA Supporting victims and survivors
• DA, Mental Health, Substance misuse
• DASH
• DASH follow on reflective practice
• DHRs as a mechanism for change
• Domestic abuse as it affects LGBT+ community e-learning
• Domestic Abuse e-learning
• Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme
• Individual safety planning
• Insight into issues facing HongKongers
• Into DA Impact on children
• Into to intersectionality and cultural competency
• Making Research Count (MRC)
• Modern Day Slavery
• No Recourse to Public Funding
• Position of Trust Breaches
• Post separation abuse
• Prevent and links to DA
• Professionals Safeguarding Level 3
• Romance Fraud
• S. Violence in Inter-Personal Relationships
• Safeguarding Children
• Spiritual abuse
• Stalking
• Suicide and Homicide risk in carers
• Transferring a tenancy
• Trauma informed approaches
• Understanding homeless vulnerability
• Using evidence around DA with racially minoritised people
• Vicarious trauma and burnout
• WBC DA Ambassador training
• WBC DA Workplace Responses for Managers
• Working with perpetrators
We also have multiple other training which will include elements around DA, Developmental Trauma, Attachment training for example. I haven’t included costings for these or for MRC as it isn’t DA specific so will be difficult to allocate costings to certain elements only.