I was delighted to be invited to contribute to a safeguarding book; ‘Safeguarding Adults and Children – Dilemmas and Complex Practice, published in 2016
I wrote chapter 12: Inter-professional Working; The Challenge of Domestic Abuse
Since 2013,representatives from health, social work, education, police and the voluntary sector, working across higher education, practice and community settings, have worked collaboratively to plan and deliver annual inter-professional learning (IPL) conferences for GP trainees, student Health Visitors, School Nurses, Midwives and Social Workers, student SENCOs and teachers, and police officers at postgraduate level.
Evaluating Inter-professional Education : Initial learning from the annual domestic abuse conference. Published on line in British Journal for General Practitioners, June 2020; link below.
Investigating the impact of small group facilitation for an annual interprofessional domestic abuse conference on general practice: an impact evaluation study.
Sirkia-Weaver,S.,Charlie,A .( 2023)
The abstract
This impact study attempts to explore how the GP facilitators’ own knowledge of domestic abuse (DA) as a serious public health issue has developed since they have undertaken the small group facilitation at the annual domestic abuse conference at Canterbury Christ Church University ( CCCU).With the aim of identifying how the facilitators skills and expertise in eliciting and managing domestic abuse, including referrals, in front-line practice has developed for themselves and within their surgery based teams. This study also explores how the process of small group facilitation has influenced the GP facilitators views on inter-professional working.
Presented at BJGP conference march 23
Published in British Journal of General Practice link below
