HAMPTON TRUST NEWS | JULY 2024
As the Hampton Trust community is growing across the UK, we hope this newsletter will help you stay up to date with opportunities and developments at our organisation. In this edition, you can read about the expansion of CARA, our asks from the next Government, and DARE Champions training in Gloucestershire.
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NEW LOOK, SAME EXPERTISE
At Hampton Trust, we have always been bold and innovative in what we do.?Now we look like it, too.
Since it was founded in 1996, Hampton Trust has been developing and delivering bold, innovative and evidence based interventions to rebuild lives; and we have been working with partner organisations, policy makers and commissioners to change the system.
Hampton Trust stands for innovation, transformation and hope. People and their experiences, be they perpetrators or victims of domestic abuse, are at the heart of what we do. So when we embarked on refreshing our look and website, we built it around the people we work with, featuring men and women of all ages and backgrounds and telling their compelling stories of transformation and change.
We also wanted to make it easier for agencies and clients to understand our services and to refer themselves or others, and we want to invite partners, commissioners and policy makers to explore our evidence base and the many options for strategic collaboration.
Each year, we directly support thousands of individuals across the UK to rebuild their lives and move forward into a more positive future, and nearly a thousand professionals have been trained in the DARE Toolkit. Hampton Trust has been filling the gap in rehabilitative interventions and training for more than 25 years. It was therefore important to us to retain some of our original brand features to honour the journey we have been on.
We believe our new look firmly grounds us in our expertise and past achievements while at the same time mirroring the hope and transformation we achieve daily for the people we work with.?
We look forward to having you with us on this journey.
Chantal Hughes | Chief Executive
Explore our new website here: www.hamptontrust.org.uk
OUR ASKS FROM THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Ahead of the General Election, charity Respect published a manifesto laying out the actions that will need to be taken by the new government to make real progress in tackling domestic abuse.?At Hampton Trust, we agree with all its key asks:
However, as a leading provider delivering a range of domestic abuse perpetrator interventions and training across the UK, we have some additional asks to add and key points to highlight:
1. Legislation to enable the implementation of perpetrator early interventions must be progressed urgently.
2.?There must be quality standards for CARA-based interventions that are embedded in the criminal justice system as part of the Out of Court Resolution Framework.
3.?A shift in focus towards a whole-system approach to respond to domestic abuse perpetrators must be underpinned by an increase in funding for training.
Read the full article here: https://hamptontrust.org.uk/our-response-to-the-respect-manifesto-what-we-need-from-the-next-government/
FIRST COHORT OF DARE CHAMPIONS
In July, we will be training the first cohort of DARE Champions in Gloucestershire.?
DARE Champions are professionals who have already been trained in the DARE Toolkit and are now taking on the responsibility to ensure their team colleagues are DARE aware and support them in embedding DARE into their routine practice. By routinely exploring the risk of domestic abuse not only with potential victims but also with potential perpetrators, professionals from all kind of frontline settings will be able to identify cases of domestic abuse much earlier and offer support before harmful behaviour escalates.
Over the last year we have been working with the Gloucestershire and Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioners who share our vision of enabling as many frontline professionals in their area to be able to engage domestic abuse perpetrators and nudge them into specialist interventions. If we can engage and motivate perpetrators to want to change, they are much more likely to successfully complete the interventions.
So far, 337 professionals have been trained in the DARE Toolkit in Gloucestershire and 107 in Northumbria.
Read more about the DARE Toolkit here: www.daretoolkit.org.uk
CARA EXPANSION UNDERWAY
Working with strong leadership across South Wales and Gwent, Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire, and Northumbria police, we have been supporting the mobilisation of CARA?through consultation, support, resources, and training across six new police regions.
Our replication model of CARA offers a unique opportunity for CARA as a tested early intervention for offenders identified as suitable by police to be delivered by local organisations with particular regional insights and links to?onward support, often provided by the same organisation or partners they have worked closely with.?
At its core, CARA is a collaborative intervention: group sessions involve collaborative discussions with participants to meet session aims, co-facilitators collaborate throughout workshop delivery, and providers collaborate with police on decision making and oversight of cases. The success of the replication model itself is due its collaborative approach - we have taken a great deal of pleasure in working with and learning from PhoenixDAS, Safer Merthyr Tydfill, The Wish Centre, MyCWA, TLC and Equation and look forward to continuing to collaborate.
To find out more about CARA and how to get it for your police area, go to www.projectcara.org.uk
CARA REPLACED IN AVON & SOMERSET
Due to a change in direction for service commissioning in Avon &?Somerset we will soon be completing our last CARA cohorts in this area, leaving behind an impressive legacy: Nearly 95% offenders who began the CARA intervention also completed it, and more than 90% of those who did?have strongly indicated that CARA has positively impacted their motivation to change their behaviour.
We take pride in the fact that CARA remains the first?conditional caution intervention successfully trialled for alleged first time domestic abuse offenders,?paving the way for new approaches to safely and effectively address and reduce the overwhelming negative impacts of domestic abuse, and setting the benchmark and standard?for early interventions for domestic abuse perpetrators.
We look forward to continuing innovation, collaboration, and partnership delivery as CARA builds momentum and expands its reach while we eagerly await updates on Diversionary Cautions coming into place.