Consultancy Services

Staffing

Staff are employed by the Standing Together Trust to carry out the work of coordination, training, information sharing and development. Partnerships do not just happen. Standing Together staff:

• convene and service the multi-agency steering groups of Standing Together;
• draft protocols and procedures for agreement;
• document the policy and procedural changes agreed, and the thinking behind them;
• offer support as necessary to ensure that all partners have an equal say — in particular, the voluntary sector agencies working directly with survivors;
• work with staff at all levels in partner agencies to promote understanding of domestic violence and define best practice in the context of each organisation's work;
• ensure that this development work with individual agencies is fed into the partnership and the implications and opportunities it creates fully explored;
• plan, co-ordinate and deliver training to staff in partner agencies;
• research the feasibility and detail of new developments, commissioning external experts if appropriate;
• manage the process of consultation with survivors — deciding on appropriate questions to ask, then ensuring that material generated really does influence the partnership's actions and that the consultation is a safe, positive and respectful experience for participants;
• receive, input and analyse monitoring data on behalf of the partnership, and report on it and what it means;
• raise funds as necessary to implement change; then account to funders;
• keep up with best practice in this country and abroad and make sure it informs our work;
• identify opportunities for further development in line with Standing Together's aims;
• promote policy and practice change at all levels locally and nationally to improve the safety of survivors of domestic violence and their children.

What Can Standing Together Offer Your Partnership?

General consultancy

Around all aspects of domestic violence partnerships (e.g. structures, strategies, policies and building consensus)

Specific consultancy

In relation to:

• The coordinated community response — protocols, agreements, buy-in
• Specialist Domestic Violence Courts — especially our SDVC toolkit and Domestic Violence Bench Book and Good Practice Guide
• Data systems — statistics, performance measurement
• Survivors consultation

Training

For Strategists and frontline workers – police, health, local authority staff, practitioners, witness care units, judiciary etc, in relation to:

• Dynamics of domestic violence
• Best practice

Safety and accountability audits

Facilitation of strategy days, seminars, workshops

Chairing of conferences

Coaching to senior officers working in domestic violence and frontline workers

For more information and to discuss your needs please contact Anthony Wills, Chief Executive, Standing Together on 020 8748 5717 or email a.wills@standingtogether.org.uk