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DfE funds joint Harrow Council’s initiative to safeguard children from domestic violence (12 January 2017)

Date: 12/01/2017
Duncan Lewis, Family Solicitors, DfE funds joint Harrow Council’s initiative to safeguard children from domestic violence

Tavistock Relationships and Harrow Council have welcomed a decision by the Department for Education (DfE) as part of its Safeguarding Grants programme 2016-2018, to fund a joint project to safeguard Harrow children affected by domestic violence.

The council said the funding will build on the experience of a successful pilot study initiated by Harrow Council in partnership with Tavistock Relationships –
and will enable work with a further 30 families.

The partnership will also deliver a training programme for up to 90 frontline practitioners, to help them use evidence-based approaches in their work with families where there has been domestic violence.

There will also be advanced training for Harrow clinicians drawn from Social Care, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and other Harrow Council teams.

Chief Executive of Tavistock Relationships, Andrew Balfour, said:

“Safeguarding children is a key part of Tavistock Relationships’ core mission and so we are particularly pleased to be able to develop this collaborative work with Harrow.

“This project aims to keep children safe by working with parental couples, through giving them the opportunity to change the ways they communicate and resolve conflict – we will do this while being acutely sensitive to the risks involved.

“We look forward to helping more Harrow families and helping to train the current workforce in Harrow – we hope that this approach can become embedded within frontline practice in the future.”

Head of Service at Harrow Council, Parmjit Chahal, added:

“Innovation is the top priority for Harrow Council in improving outcomes –
and I’m delighted the DfE have supported our approach.

“We often deal with multiple instances of situational domestic violence with little change, leaving children repeatedly exposed to domestic violence, with damaging long-term potential effects.

“This funding gives us an opportunity to work to develop new ways of giving couples an opportunity, where it’s safe to do so, to develop more effective techniques to resolve their conflict, without resorting to violence.”

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