« Previous | Contents | Next »
Listen
Domestic Abuse: A National Training Strategy
Annex 2: The National Co-ordinators
To ensure the implementation of the Strategy, two National Co-ordinators will be employed by the Scottish Executive. The posts will be funded for 3 years and will be advertised as short- term contracts or secondments. Line management will be provided by the Executive with specialist support from an Advisory Group. The National Group to Address Violence Against Women will oversee and monitor the direction of work.
Their remit will include:
- Building capacity into organisations within existing Domestic Abuse Partnerships.
- Defining accountability of organisations for ensuring staff are appropriately trained and supported.
- Ensuring that the issue of domestic abuse, and the requisite training programmes are embedded within agencies.
- Building up tiers of training that go beyond awareness raising and address the skills required to deal with domestic abuse.
- Devising a monitoring framework.
Aim
To ensure the effective implementation of the National Training Strategy on Domestic Abuse.
Objectives
- To revise the Action Plan of the National Training Strategy and produce annual targets for the 3-year implementation phase.
- To identify key strategic requirements for delivering the objectives of the National Strategy at a national level.
- To liaise with key departments in the Scottish Executive and relevant national organisations to ensure joint ownership at a national level for the successful implementation of the strategy.
- To develop a plan for the establishment of regional training Consortia across Scotland to progress the aims of the strategy and to set these up in conjunction with Multi-Agency Partnerships.
- To develop a proposal for funding the Consortia in line with local need and national priorities.
- To assist regional Consortia in formulating action plans to fulfil the requirements of the strategy.
- To ensure that the training strategy is located within an overall plan of action for improving practice within agencies including the development of support structures for staff responding to this issue.
- To identify gaps in existing training courses and work with the Scottish Women's Aid Trainer to develop appropriate packages of training for Consortia.
- To devise a monitoring framework to measure the extent to which the Strategy has been implemented.
- To develop a mechanism to identify and share good practice.
- To be accountable to the National Group to Address Violence Against Women.
National Trainer, Scottish Women's Aid
A new post of National Trainer within Scottish Women's Aid will also be funded for a period of 3 years. This post will be created to provide specialist expertise to regional Consortia in the provision of training. It will both assist the roll out of the Strategy and identify gaps in existing programmes available and barriers to their development.
Aim
To assist the implementation of the National Training Strategy on Domestic Abuse.
Objectives
- To work in conjunction with the National Training Co-ordinators and Scottish Women's Aid Training Workers to identify existing training programmes.
- To work in partnership with training Consortia and National Training Co-ordinators to ascertain specific training requirements in the development of their training plans.
- To develop a programme of specialised training for different agencies tailored to their specific needs.
- To provide a series of Training for Trainers Courses to assist local Consortia maximise their training resources.
- To contribute to the production of standards in the provision of training programmes on domestic abuse in line with current developments in Scottish Women's Aid.
- To contribute to the development of pre-qualification modules across key sectors.
The Consortia
The funding available to facilitate successful implementation of the Training Strategy is 700k per annum for 3 years. The Working Group that devised the Strategy considered that division of these resources to maximise the impact of the Strategy should be across a range of Training Consortia. Allocating resources to each multi-agency partnership was considered but rejected on the basis that this would spread the funding too thinly and because they are too diverse in terms of the areas they serve and the population covered.
Accordingly a key priority for the National Co-ordinators will be to develop a plan for the establishment of the Consortia across Scotland which will reflect need, population and geography but will adhere to co-terminous boundaries.
« Previous | Contents | Next »