Make a Change publishes policy position paper
Make a Change is excited to publish our policy position paper today. It sets out some of the policy issues the sector is currently facing, how the Make a Change model provides solutions and fills gaps in provision, and our key recommendations.
We talk about Make a Change as an early response, instead of an early intervention, because it’s about more than direct behaviour change work with people who are concerned about their behaviour. That’s vital of course, and we're delighted to see the Home Office refer to the Make a Change programme as a ‘best in class intervention’ for perpetrators in the Standards for Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Interventions and the Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Intervention Fund. But to engage with people using abuse at the earliest possible point, we need people right across society to be aware of the warning signs and understand the support available.
Make a Change offers a community-wide early response through our three strands of work:
Expert support, which consists of a group behavioural change programme for perpetrators and separate support for survivors,
Community outreach to empower friends, family, neighbours and colleagues to know how to respond and what help is available,
Workforce development to build professionals’ confidence and skills to recognise perpetration, respond safely and effectively, and refer to local services.
Make a Change was developed by Respect in partnership with Women’s Aid Federation of England, and it’s inspired by the Change That Lasts approach. This spirit of collaboration and engagement with survivor services runs through our work, as the model establishes a partnership approach between Respect accredited perpetrator services and Women’s Aid member services to deliver the domestic abuse perpetrator programme (DAPP) and the integrated support service (ISS), respectively.
There’s more detail in our policy position paper, and please feel free to get in touch if you’d like to discuss delivering or commissioning Make a Change.
