Mr Reg Pengelly, former Detective Superintendent for Child Protection and Violent Crime led a seminar on Domestic Abuse in rural areas in September 2008. We had over 40 attendees all of which thoroughly enjoyed the interactive workshop which covered a general overview of the subject, the Landscape of Provision and the role of Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC).

A short session outlining the law looked at how the Police work with Social Care to ensure safe sharing of information and a joined up approach kicked the seminar off. The audience was well represented by many different agencies and professionals which meant that the interactive group work brought up some very good discussion topics for the delegates to look at.

The session concluded with DVDs of survivors of abuse detailing how the abuse started and escalated and how living in rural areas had an affect on their ability to get help. "I had never considered how a perpertrator might use the threat of harming a pet or child could lead to a victim being unable to leave; many refuges do not take animals or even teenage boys" said one delegate.

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