Changing Lives in Cheshire East Partnership Annual Report 2016 – 2017
Summary The Cheshire East Domestic Abuse Service (CEDAS) is delivered by the CWA partnership, a formal partnership between Cheshire Without Abuse and Barnardo’s. CEDAS is commissioned by Cheshire East Council to support the wider goals of the Domestic and Sexual Abuse Partnership (CEDSAP) to
Our staff and volunteers worked with 935 unique adults and children across all our services in 2016/17
“reduce the human and service costs of domestic abuse through partnership and whole family work to prevent abuse from occurring, protect & support those affected and reduce the likelihood of future harm” 2
What Went Well? • Learning from one another - partnership and working together promotes flexibility • Shared approach – e.g. engage women’s group working with women who harm others • Shaping service developments – changes in police use of DVPO and DVPN use the orders where no criminal charges • Sharing expertise with other agencies as consultants and trainers • Accommodation working effectively and to a high standard of quality in our flexible, safe accommodation
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Having 2 community bases with good engagement & accessibility Specialist Teen Relationship Abuse Worker who is YPVA qualified
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Whole family work improving the safety and wellbeing of victims and children and offering a return on investment of £1:£6.27
Challenges and Learning Service users: • Demand across the service both North and South there is a marked increase from previous years • Children engagement – children and parents complexities • Victim status V harming status –affected by systems don’t allow to easy interface
Specialist Domestic Abuse Support to
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Individuals
Service delivery: • We have been accepted as ‘subject experts’ by agencies but that puts more demand on us being present – is the balance right? • We want to be responsive to demand and locality need and we keep testing out that we have the balance right • How we ration our resources to ensure we remain accessible yet also retain some capacity to be innovative and creative.
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Partnership: • Mental health service engagement could be better, information sharing an example of a key challenge • Thresholds and systems for adult services – to meet the needs – the relationships are positive it finding solutions • Engagement with others has worked well but there is work to do on explaining that one staff from CEDAS can represent across the service
Highlights Adult recovery programmes 90 women attended Gateway 13 women attended Wellbeing Behaviour change 36 men and women who harm received an intervention through Engage and/or Lifeline
Survivor & Voices Groups 93 groups delivered Used by over 300 adults and children
Advice Clinics 78 domestic abuse and legal advice clinics delivered
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Our Services Experts in domestic abuse, our specialist staff deliver whole family services from early intervention to community based step down and support 16 flexible units of high quality, safe, emergency accommodation Housing related support to victims of domestic abuse Needs based community support to individuals and families including individual support, group work & recovery work Support to those who harm others and to their partners & families Support to children affected by domestic abuse including one to one, group and recovery work.
Prevention work focused on training, influencing and campaigning 6
Delivering Integrated and Collaborative Services Critical Friend
Workforce Development 15 multi-agency training sessions have
CEDAS senior managers are involved in reflective reviews, serious case reviews and domestic homicide reviews, supporting colleagues to identify and implement recommendations and learning
been delivered to over 250 professionals
MARAC CEDAS mangers attend every MARAC in Cheshire East, contributing to the management of high risk cases
Client Voice & Involvement Are heard at a strategic level through regular meetings, involvement activities and strategic representation
Professionals Meetings At a front line level our staff work closely alongside multi-agency colleagues to ensure that the needs of clients are met
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Future Focus Children and young people
Demand
Significant work has been done to improve engagement rates and further work is scheduled to review the effectiveness of changes
We will conduct a review into demand and identify proposals to manage the levels of need that continue to present
Vulnerable adults
Client Involvement
CEDAS staff are working alongside local adult social care, mental health and substance misuse teams to improve pathways and ensure the challenges faced by older and disabled people are met appropriately when they are affected by domestic abuse
Remains a central priority and CEDAS clients are involved in developing a booklet on wellbeing, a national project with SafeLives and the local DA quality standards. In 2017-18 clients will be involved in writing an involvement strategy
Complex needs
Gaps in Provision
CEDAS are recruiting a specialist complex needs worker as part of a sub regional accommodation project. This post will support a small case load of clients with co-presenting vulnerabilities and will support our multi-agency work around improved pathways and workforce development
The CEDAS leadership team review monitoring data monthly and report quarterly on trends. In 2017-18 we will continue our work around older and disabled people and focus on LGBTQ people and communities 8
Feedback “I was looking for ways to help him, not get rid of him. This [Lifeline] literally saved my family” Lifeline Participant’s Wife “It makes you think about stuff differently and talk to people differently. Like I don’t want to be the guy that no one wants to go out with or talk to cos of kicking off all the time. Even my brother, he knows me well and that but he says, don’t have a drink cos you’re a prick when you’re fucked. I don’t want to be that guy. Like my Dad.” Lifeline Participant “I can make choices and decisions for myself now. The confidence in my own ability to make decisions has come back to me. When someone’s told you constantly for 50 years that you’re wrong you doubt yourself.” DA Survivor “its [Gateway programme] making me realise I am not insane. I’m a normal person in a not normal situation. Anyone would be messed up under this stress.” DA Survivor “I don’t like sharing with my mum. But it’s nice and calm here so it’s better” Child 9
Key Information Service Name
CEDAS: Cheshire East Domestic Abuse Service
Commissioning Organisation
Cheshire East Local Authority
Current Contract Start Date
1st April 2016
Current Contract End Date
31st March 2019
Lead Commissioner
Children Services
Key Partners in delivery of service
Barnardo’s Lead body CWA – Cheshire Without Abuse sub contract
Contract lead
Marie Corran ADCS Merseyside and Cheshire Barnardo’s
Operational lead
Abby Ogier Barnardo’s Saskia Richtie CWA
Delivery leads
Community Support North, Paul Stubbs Community Support South, Bev Wrighton Children’s work CE wide, Michelle Richards, Dispersed Emergency Accommodation, Bev Wrighton
Contact for Feedback
Marie.corran@barnardos.org.uk
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