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Children and young people EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC ABUSE: Guidance Note for Planners
Appendix C Domestic Abuse: Examples of Good Practice in Scotland
North Ayrshire Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse Partnership identified the need for support for children and young people not in refuge as a priority for their services planning. Forum members agreed a proposal, strategy and identified funding partners from the forum (health, education, social services, Chief Executives office and Women's Aid) to match-fund an application to the Domestic Abuse Services Development Fund. This joint strategy enabled North Ayrshire Women's Aid to develop an outreach support service to children and young people in the community, the first of its kind in Scotland. This service has been expanded to meet the high demand.
Glasgow Community Safety Partnership has employed a temporary Resource Officer (Gender Based Violence) to map service provision for children and young people affected by domestic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence, review and collate information on the needs and issues faced by this group and to help inform strategic planning and service prioritisation within the city of Glasgow. Funding for the initiative was secured from the Changing Children's Services Fund as a result of a submission from the Keeping Glasgow a Safe Place Planning Group in the Children's Services Planning frameworks, the worker is based within the Support Unit for the Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership.
South Ayrshire's Better Integrated Children's Services fund a Women's Aid Training & Development Post to ensure that two crucial themes; Training for Children's Service Practitioners and Promoting Prevention in Schools are tackled proactively. Raising awareness of the impact of Domestic Abuse on the lives of Children & Young People has helped practitioners to respond effectively to situations young people encounter. South Ayrshire Multi-Agency Partnership to Tackle Domestic Abuse endorse and support the post and the development worker in a variety of ways and prevention work in schools is greatly enhanced by the existence of a Women's Aid Young Person's Outreach Support worker funded by Ayrshire & Arran Health Board.
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