Aberdeenshire Domestic Abuse Multi Agency Partnership Providing Quality Services for People who are Abused or who are the Victims of Violence Action Plan Priorities for 2007 - 2008
No.
Commitme nt (link to Strategy 2002 action plan)
Action
Lead Agency
Target start / completion date
Estimated cost
Funding source
1
Policy: 1, 3, 17, Access to service: 3, 5, 6, 9. 14, Education and Training: 2, 3, 8
Continued development and expansion of Domestic Abuse Outreach services and exploration of funding sources beyond 2008
Aberdeenshire Council
ongoing
£60,965 + £73,606
To be determined in light of Spending Review 2007 To be determined in light of Spending Review 2007 Partners training budgets
2
Develop awareness and Grampian Domestic March 2008 response training for all staff Abuse Training in line with Scottish Executive Consortium Strategy and in conjunction with findings of Training Needs Analysis. Ensure sustainability post GDATC funding timescale
£51,200 Grampian wide budget
1
3
Education and Training: 4, 5,
Development of awareness raising programmes in schools and youth work settings to address young peoples value base in terms of respectful personal relationships Link with other Strategies eg Sexual Health Strategy Employee policies to be developed in relation to employees who are victims or perpetrators, in line with Scottish Executive National Training Strategy, in partner agencies where such policies do not currently exist Link with Equalities agenda (gender)
Aberdeenshire Multi Work has started Agency Domestic and should be Abuse Consortium / ongoing Aberdeenshire Council Education service
To be determined in light of Spending Review 2007
4
Policy: 18, Access to services: 2, 3,
Responsibility of each partner agency (Aberdeenshire Council P&ICT)
Ongoing.
Within existing budgets
5
Access to services: 4,
Continue to promote reporting of Domestic Abuse by ensuring awareness materials available in variety of locations Electronic links to be made with other relevant resources
Multi agency partnership
ongoing
£1,000
Community Safety budget
2
eg. Parents website and Community Safety website
6
Policy: 8, 16, 17, Access to services: 1, 3, 5, 14,
Continue prevention interventions to produce reduction in repeat victimisations. - distribution of DAP kits, hard security auditing and provision of security items Develop Domestic Abuse policies and procedures with a focus on harmonising policies at multi agency and cross authority level where possible to enable effective joint working. Development of Aberdeenshire Perpetrators Project.
Grampian Police Aberdeenshire Council
Ongoing
£8,000
Community Safety Aberdeenshire Council Homelessness Strategy funding
7
Policy 15, 18, 19, 20
All Partners
Ongoing
unknown
Within Partner agencies existing budgets and utilising the e-care agenda and IAFC data sharing Within existing resources initially
8.
Policy 8, 10, 12, Access to Services
Aberdeenshire Council – Criminal Justice service Community Safety Grampian Police All Partners
Pilot project to be set up 2007
unknown
9.
Policy 2, 9, Access to
Develop ways of working effectively and developing
unknown
To be explored
3
services: 7,
services for service users affected by domestic abuse who have additional service needs – i.e. substance misuse, mental health Develop ways of meeting the needs of women who have no recourse to public funds All Partners unknown To be explored
10.
Policy 3, 13, Access to service: 4, Policy 3, 13, Access to service: 4,
11.
Ensure access to information about services and service provision is available in appropriate languages / formats
All Partners
unknown
From service provider core budgets
VMM / November 2007
4