This CPD-certified, 2-day training course, is designed to build confidence, clarity, and professional judgement when working with people who use domestic abuse. It helps practitioners move beyond uncertainty, avoidance, or over-engagement by offering a clear framework for understanding perpetrator behaviour, maintaining safe boundaries, and acting decisively in the interests of victim safety.

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

• Explain why working with perpetrators is a core safety intervention for victims and children
• Apply a gender-informed approach that recognises patterns of domestic abuse while responding appropriately to all perpetrators and victims
• Identify how perpetrators typically present in professional settings
• Demonstrate safe, boundaried responses to perpetrator disclosures that avoid collusion, confrontation or overstepping professional role
• Understand different specialist intervention referral pathways
• Evaluate their own practice through reflection to maintain safety, appropriate boundaries and avoid professional drift

Effective report-writing is crucial for delivering perpetrator work within a multi-agency setting. This hands-on, OCN-accredited, 1-day course is designed to boost practitioners' confidence, skills, and knowledge in crafting high-quality reports. Participants will engage in an interactive training experience that includes various media, practical exercises, case studies, and discussions, providing them with a comprehensive toolkit of skills and knowledge.

Learners will gain a thorough understanding of the essential information needed to create quality reports and where to source this information.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Identify the various types of reports that may be required or requested
• Adapt their writing style to suit different audiences
• Structure and construct formal reports
• Identify common pitfalls in report writing
• Apply case recording skills that inform report writing
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Formulate effective risk statements

Risk management is a central function of an intervention for perpetrators of domestic abuse and a strong focus of Respect's accreditation standards. It includes risk identification, communication of risk internally and externally and having effective procedures to manage or reduce risk on a day-to-day basis, through a case management process.

The 2-day training course is aimed at Practice Managers, Groupwork Facilitators, Case Managers, Integrated Support Service Workers and IDVAs.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Make use of risk assessment tools, applying risk identification and assessment principles
• Identify information that is needed to manage risk
• Identify the most important risk factors for domestic abuse perpetration
• Interview perpetrators of domestic abuse to extract details about their behaviours that will inform assessments

Drive and Respect have jointly develop this 2-day, OCN-accredited, training course, which will help participants to:

• examine culture and cultural competency, so they can engage with perpetrators from any background or culture.
• interrogate cultural biases that feed into practice.
• learn how to navigate and respond to cultural and religious justifications for abuse.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Explore what culture is and what is required in order to be culturally competent
• Understand how increased cultural competence can prevent unintentional victim blaming
• Gain knowledge in spiritual and familial abuse
• Gain confidence in challenging cultural and religious justifications for domestic abuse
• Be prepared for pitfalls that may arise and become confident navigating these
• Explore best practice for using interpreters
• Develop a culturally competent approach that respects individuals' right to a cultural identity, whilst having clear boundaries against colluding with perpetrators
• Share good practice and tips for culturally competent practice

The sexual respect module of a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme is a particularly challenging one to deliver. This hands-on, CPD-certified, 1-day course will teach Facilitators how to deliver this module safely and effectively.

The course is interactive and uses a range of media, practical exercises, and discussions. Participants will take away a "toolkit" based on evidence-based practice and recent theory. The course is suitable for Facilitators who are new to groupwork interventions, as well as for experienced ones.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Describe the different types of sexual abuse and the ways perpetrators use them
• Plan responding to the common pitfalls that may arise when delivering the sexual respect module
• Examine the implications of a male and a female facilitator co-delivering this module
• Develop responses to counter rape myths using up-to-date research findings
• Practice using groupwork exercises for this module
• Make use of a range of models and tools for the facilitation of this module

This five-day, OCN London-accredited, intensive training programme will equip practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and reflective practice to deliver high-quality, safe, and effective perpetrator interventions in group settings, delivered online. Working with perpetrators demands specialist knowledge, advanced facilitation skills, and a willingness to sit with complexity.

This course prepares practitioners to lead perpetrator groups with confidence, rigour, and a survivor-centred focus. The course is structured as follows: Day 1: two-hour webinar covering theory. Days 2-5 practising skills and preparing sessions for groupwork.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Identify the key components of the assessment process
• Describe how gender norms and dynamics affect both participants and facilitators.
• Describe how risk is assessed and managed as an ongoing, dynamic process
• Plan and facilitate a range of core programme exercises
• Practice the delivery of the modules on the effects on children and sexual respect safely and effectively.
• Identify and respond to challenging group dynamics, including minimising, scapegoating, collusion, and disruption
• Self-assess the effectiveness of facilitation approaches in relation to building perpetrator accountability and victim empathy.

This hands-on 4-day training course will give learners the confidence and skills to work one-to-one with perpetrators using the structured Respect 1-1 Programme. The course is participatory and practical, with a primary focus on working interactively with the Respect 1-1 programme materials.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Make use of a variety of exercises and content from the manual to deliver the structured sessions
• Analyse incidents of abusive behaviour to help perpetrators learn how to practice non-abusive behaviours
• Utilise techniques which address denial, minimisation, and justification of abuse
• Develop strategies to enhance perpetrators' motivation to change

This OCN-accredited, hands-on, 3-day training course will teach participants how to offer a responsive and trauma-informed support to survivors of domestic abuse as part of the Integrated Support Service of a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator intervention.

The course will equip participants with a thorough understanding of the role of the Integrated Support Service, providing a deeper knowledge of domestic abuse, trauma and recovery within the context of the perpetrator intervention.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Apply techniques for Proactive Contact
• Utilise the Case Management system effectively
• Explain to survivors how the perpetrator intervention works, empowering them whilst managing their expectations
• Make use of their advocacy skills with other agencies, respectfully challenging victim blaming
• Explain the dynamics of domestic abuse to survivors, helping them to "join the dots"
• Make use of a range of risk assessment models, responding to changes in risk and safety planning accordingly
• Support survivors at different stages of their recovery

This OCN-London accredited training course is for Service Managers of interventions for perpetrators of domestic violence, including behaviour-change programmes (DAPPs, DVPPs etc), intensive case management interventions (such as the Drive Project), as well as hybrid interventions. The course is delivered through a series of online 5 half-day workshops and is assessed based on the work submitted in a portfolio, alongside a reflective journal. The 5 workshops and the learning objectives for each one are:

Line management, reflective practice, and professional development

• Understand the importance of reflective practice in developing professional competency and supporting staff to develop.
• Explore the purpose of line management supervision and how to deliver this effectively.

Governance, risk mitigation and accountability

• Understand how to put processes in place that ensure accountability and good practice throughout the service.
• Learn about different types of organisational risk and how to manage and mitigate them.

Risk assessment and managing a safe and effective intervention

• Examine and evaluate different risk assessment tools, and practice using them.
• Learn how to manage a service safely by understanding risk assessment and management as a continuous process.

Safeguarding and effective multi-agency working

• Explore best practice when carrying out safeguarding duties.
• Look at effective and proportionate information sharing with other agencies, and how to provide good quality reports.

Best practice around equality, diversity, and inclusion

• Understand the elements needed to create an effective EDI strategy.
• Explore best practices for the recruitment, training and ongoing development of a diverse and engaged workforce.

Good record-keeping is essential for effective case management. Without accurate, complete, and clear documentation of information and activities, it's impossible to manage cases effectively. This one-day training covers all aspects of effective record keeping. You'll learn why it's crucial for strong case management and defensible decision-making.

By the end of the course learners will be able to:

• Understand the role of record keeping in effective case management
• Identify the key components of high-quality record keeping
• Explore strategies for overcoming challenges in timely and accurate documentation
• Assess their current record keeping practices against the Respect Standard
• Learn the fundamentals of defensible decision-making and its core elements

Treatment management is a key element of delivering a perpetrator intervention and a requirement in Respect's accreditation standards. It is how services monitor the quality and integrity of the intervention, and also an integral part of staff growth and practice development. This course will support perpetrator intervention practitioners and practice managers to improve the treatment management process.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Explore the purpose of treatment management and identify the elements that make it effective
• Review their own treatment management process against the requirements of the Respect Standard
• Understand the importance of reflective practice for successful treatment management
• Practice delivering a treatment management feedback session
• Explore the next steps after treatment management including delivering staff feedback and making action plans

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented communication style and a specialist skill required for safe and effective perpetrator work, as listed in the Respect Competency Framework. This 2-day interactive course is aimed at baseline practitioners, those new to the sector or in their early years of practice.

By the end of this two-day course, learners will be able to:

• Describe the spirit, purpose and core skills of motivational interviewing and explain how it strengthens engagement.
• Identify the four elements of MI spirit (Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Evocation) and demonstrate them.
• Place a client's statements on the stages of change.
• Recognise the righting reflex in themselves and select an MI-consistent response.
• Use the core OARS skills (open questions, affirmations, reflections of the simple, complex, feeling and meaning types, and collecting, linking and transitional summaries), and distinguish a genuine affirmation from flattery.
• Recognise change talk and elicit and strengthen it through evocative questions.
• Open a session with a mandated, denying or hostile perpetrator client applying new learning and skills.