Help-seeking – This covers interventions established for people to talk about their behaviour at an early point. They are usually brief interventions that operate as a pathway into other responses. Example: Respect Phoneline.
Early responses – This covers work that is a step before long term behaviour change – it may involve group or one to one work to provide information about domestic abuse, and/or to motivate perpetrators to consider a behaviour change programme. These are usually shorter-term interventions. Example: Change that Lasts Early Awareness Raising (CLEAR), Cautioning and Relationship Abuse (CARA).
Behaviour change work – For those where abuse has become an ongoing pattern, longer term interventions (these standards propose at least 22 weeks) offer the possibility of rethinking and changing how they relate to others. Often combined with risk and needs assessment, individual one to one work where needed, case management and multi- agency processes. Examples: Respect accredited Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme’s (DAPPs), Make a Change.
Intensive multi-agency case management – Has emerged to work with ‘high harm, high risk’ cases identified by police on the basis of repeat call outs and/or multiple victims but could also cover other harm and risk levels. The key characteristic here is direct work backed up by a systems response – the coordination of agency responses, it can also include individual one to one work. Examples: Drive, Prevent and Change (PAC), See Change.
Read more: Standards for domestic abuse perpetrator interventions
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