Domestic Abuse Legal Tools and Powers Awareness: Giving Your Customers Choices

This course will enable housing professionals to discuss a range of legal powers and protective measures that can be put in place when a customer is being subjected to domestic abuse. The training is centred on the understanding that all action should be survivor-led and that housing can play a critical role in helping their customers know what options are available to them.

Delegates will discuss a range of protective options and consider the pros and cons of different interventions available. This course recognises that the housing professional will generally not be the person who puts these measures in place and encourages partnership working with specialist domestic abuse services and the police.

Delegates will receive a bespoke resource that reflects the content of the course, including a flow chart of best practices in supporting delegates to have discussions with their customers.    

• Non-molestation orders

• Occupation Orders

• Prohibited steps orders

• Stalking Protection Orders

• Clare's Law

• Injunctions

• Sanctuary Scheme

Please note: This course is not delivered by legal experts. It is a basic awareness training to provide housing teams with enough knowledge to explain a range of Legal Tools and Powers to customers subjected to domestic abuse

Delegate Feedback: "I needed to know more about legal powers. It was very interesting to see what we can use that can help. Has given me more confidence to know what I can say to a DA victim.  Makes me more proactive and knowledgeable"

By the end of this session, delegates will be able to:

• Know what tools and powers are available to survivor/victims of domestic abuse

• Know what tools and powers are available to local authorities, housing providers and the police

• Feel confident to discuss these options with customers and identify the most suitable action

• Ensure that all action is part of a safe and multiagency response to domestic abuse

Housing practitioners who interact with customers face to face, make home visits, hold a caseload e.g.

• Housing officers/neighbourhood teams
• Housing Management/Tenancy Sustainment Officers
• Anti Social Behaviour/Community Safety Teams
• Tenancy Support teams

Live online training delivered via Zoom using Mentimeter

This course contains 1 Module and is 3 hours long

This includes a comfort break, space for questions and time for the delegates to evaluate and reflect after the delivery

• DAHA Delegate Pack (Includes activity workbook, key messages from training, links to films shown in the course, domestic abuse directory and toolkits)

• CPD Certificate

• A copy of the slides 

Group Booking

Public Sector/Statutory (Local Authorities & Housing Associations): £2000

DAHA Members: £1800

All fees are for up to 20 delegates (minimum 6 delegates to run a course).

DAHA prefer to cap attendance at 20 to ensure all delegates feel able to fully engage. However, we can accommodate a maximum of 5 additional delegates upon request. Each additional delegate will incur a fee of £75

Open Courses 

£90 per delegate

DAHA training courses are exempt from VAT

Cancellations post-agreement
Please refer to the terms and conditions before you book

Are you a DAHA member?

DAHA membership discount on Group Bookings = 10% Accredited/Accreditation Members and 5% Affiliated Members

This course supports DAHA Members to meet the Staff Development & Support Priority Area

Standard 3: Enhanced staff learning and development

Read more about DAHA Membership HERE

This is a skills course so ideally delegates will have attended domestic abuse awareness training and have good basic knowledge of coercive control and its impact on survivor/victims.