FOI 311046
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 311046
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 12th February 2024. Please find below the response to your request:
Is your force currently delivering formal or informal training in handling domestic abuse cases?
If yes,
What does the current training consist of? Please provide details of the following.
- I would like to request all course material delivered in the training, such as papers, exercises and powerpoints. If any material is protected under copyright I would instead
- like the title, author or similar.
- Does your training go through scenarios with different genders as the perpetrators/victims? Or does the training have another element of gendered focus?
- How many hours or days will the training take?
- How regularly do you give this training? And how regularly are staff offered or provided with this training in their careers?
- Is it online or in person?
- Is it individual or in groups, if the latter how big are the groups then?
- Is it mandatory? Is it assessed? And can you fail the training? If yes, will it have any consequences if a staff member fails? And how many have failed the last year?
Who delivers the training?
- Is it external organisations, like SafeLives? If not, is the training done by internal staff and if that is the case, what are their qualifications? Please provide a list of organisations
- that have carried out training in the last 10 years.
Are members of staff actively offered the training, or will they apply for it themselves?
- If it is offered, then what members of staff is it offered to?
How long have you been providing this, or similar, training? In the last 10 years, have there been any significant changes in how you provide this training, for who and by who? Please provide details of any changes.
Do you track the completion and impact of the training?
- If yes, how?
Please, can you tell me how many staff members have received and finished the training each year since 2015?
If your force is not offering training, do they signpost knowledge about domestic abuse in another capacity? (Online, from other organisations and so on.)
If your force is not offering training, can you please explain what the reasoning behind this is?
Reply
West Mercia Police hold the information you have requested
Is your force currently delivering formal or informal training in handling domestic abuse cases? - Yes
If yes,
Q What does the current training consist of? Please provide details of the following.
Q I would like to request all course material delivered in the training, such as papers, exercises and powerpoints. If any material is protected under copyright I would instead like the title, author or similar.
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires West Mercia Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
The exemption applicable to the information is:
Sec 21(1) Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
This is an Absolute, class based exemption.
The information that you require is already available on the College of Policing Website
Q Does your training go through scenarios with different genders as the perpetrators/victims? Or does the training have another element of gendered focus?
As above please see college of policing
Q How many hours or days will the training take?
This will vary from 30 minutes to 3 days
Q How regularly do you give this training? And how regularly are staff offered or provided with this training in their careers?
This is dependent on force and departmental requirements
Q Is it online or in person?
Classroom based training
Q Is it individual or in groups, if the latter how big are the groups then?
Groups – from 5 – 20 in a group
Q Is it mandatory? Is it assessed? And can you fail the training? If yes, will it have any consequences if a staff member fails? And how many have failed the last year?
Mandatory for the relevancy of the individual’s role, no assessments required
Q Who delivers the training? Is it external organisations, like SafeLives? If not, is the training done by internal staff and if that is the case, what are their qualifications? Please provide a list of organisations that have carried out training in the last 10 years.
Internal training is carried out internally by our Continual Professional Development Training Team. Our external training has been run by SafeLives and Martin Lakeman Consultancy.
Q Are members of staff actively offered the training, or will they apply for it themselves?
If it is offered, then what members of staff is it offered to?
Training is offered this training if it is relevant to their role i.e. PCSO’s, OCC Staff, Victim and Witness Care Officers, Victim Services.
Q How long have you been providing this, or similar, training? In the last 10 years, have there been any significant changes in how you provide this training, for who and by who? Please provide details of any changes.
Training on this matter has taken place from 2003, but has been picked up considerably since 2010 when DASH training was brought in. From 2018 CPD brought in inputs covering DA Coercive Control Behaviour, DASH and DVPN. From 2019 we carried out DA Matters First Responders training, along with DA and Stalking, DA and the OCC, DA in Older Persons and now we are currently carrying out Investigation Domestic Abuse inputs.
Q Do you track the completion and impact of the training? If yes, how?
Yes, we log all attendance on our Internal Training System. This training is also evaluated internally to ensure its meeting the needs of the force.
Q Please, can you tell me how many staff members have received and finished the training each year since 2015?
Yellow = internally run training
|
Event Name |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Grand Total |
|
Cpd Da Matters Champions |
|
|
55 |
7 |
|
|
|
|
62 |
|
Cpd Da Matters Champions - Dvpn Preparation |
|
|
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
|
Cpd Da Matters First Responders |
|
|
706 |
170 |
127 |
65 |
|
|
1068 |
|
Cpd Da Matters Train The Trainer |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
4 |
|
Cpd Domestic Abuse And Stalking |
|
|
101 |
|
|
|
|
|
101 |
|
Cpd Domestic Abuse Coercive Controlling Behaviour |
|
48 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
48 |
|
Cpd Domestic Abuse Dash And Dvpn |
|
58 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
58 |
|
Dash Domestic Abuse Stalking And Harassment |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 |
|
Domestic Abuse And The Occ |
|
|
|
|
77 |
|
|
|
77 |
|
Domestic Abuse In Hard To Reach Groups |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
Domestic Abuse In Older Persons Daop |
|
|
|
|
25 |
|
|
|
25 |
|
Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Panel Training |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence & Substance Abuse |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Investigation Domestic Abuse |
|
|
|
|
|
159 |
739 |
85 |
983 |
|
Investigation Domestic Abuse (Victims) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
4 |
|
Lgbt Domestic Abuse Awareness |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
Stonham Domestic Abuse Training For Professionals |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
Tackling Domestic Abuse & Violence |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
Understanding Domestic Abuse |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
Grand Total |
14 |
106 |
876 |
180 |
229 |
224 |
746 |
85 |
2460 |