Safe & Together Briefing

The Safe and Together Model is a perpetrator pattern based, child centred, survivor strengths-based approach to working with domestic abuse. Originally developed in the US for use within the child welfare systems, there are now more than sixteen local authorities in Scotland re-evaluating their approach to tackling domestic abuse and improving the support they give to survivors, usually women and children, as well as to perpetrators of domestic abuse.

The Safe & Together Model consists of a set of principles which, when applied to cases of domestic abuse, provide tools and support practice changes to help to improve identification, assessment, documentation, case-planning and decision-making.

Sign up for our free 1hr briefing on the model to find out more.

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011, initially as the Chair of South Lanarkshire Women’s Aid, prior to spending 9 years with East Ayrshire Women’s Aid where she was responsible for the East Ayrshire Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnership Learning and Development Programmes and the lead trainer in East Ayrshire HSCP for all GBV training.

Recently Judy has become a Safe & Together Certified Trainer and was part of the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff, alongside being part of the Scottish Women’s Aid expert Coercive Control training team supporting the wider roll out of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act (DASA) 2018.

Judy previously coordinated and delivered the CEDAR programme and works widely across a range of settings training and awareness raising and is passionate about improving the understanding of and response to women and children experiencing domestic abuse.