About Our Training

Our domestic abuse training has been developed to meet the need for high quality training around the issues of domestic abuse and coercive control, civil protection orders and managing the problem in the workplace.

Our training programmes have been developed utilising more than twenty years of knowledge and experience and they are designed to meet the needs of agencies and professionals who work with victims and survivors of domestic abuse, and employers from across the private, public and third sectors. 

If you have any queries or would like to discuss your training requirements, you are welcome to contact us at: training@ncdv.org.uk

We currently train around 12,000 police and professionals every year from a wide range of services, including police and emergency services, NHS, social care, domestic abuse organisations, schools and universities. We understand that you will be working with a wide range of people who are impacted by domestic abuse, including women, men, children and young people, those from ethnic minority communities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Our training does not come from a particular philosophical or political perspective. There are organisations in the sector better qualified to talk about this. We focus on giving you the information you need, whilst gearing our training towards your client group when possible.  

The training team at NCDV consists of experienced and qualified trainers with long backgrounds in domestic abuse service provision or policing. This small team hold some impressive qualifications including qualifications in Education & Training, teaching in Further Education, MA in Domestic & Sexual Violence, psychotherapeutic counselling, substance misuse, and others. The team is led by the National Training Manager, soon to begin her PhD in domestic abuse. 

We can be flexible about numbers. Much depends on the training session you opt for and the prior knowledge of the delegates. In our longer sessions we want our delegates to have space to interact and ask questions. As a general rule, we take up to 50 staff for a 1hr briefing, and around 20 staff in sessions of 4hrs or longer.

Before each training event, delegates will assess their current level of skill and knowledge in the subject area, and again when the training is complete to assess the progression of learning, and the style, content and usefulness of the training. The person responsible for arranging and booking team training (except our free 1-hr training) will receive information from individual evaluation forms. These evaluations inform the ongoing development of our training programmes and staff.

Costs are listed with the course descriptors and competitively priced. We are always happy to discuss longer training sessions or bespoke sessions tailored to your individual requirements, such as linking training specifically to mental health or substance misuse.

Invoices will be issued after training has been arranged. Payment should be made in full 7 days prior to the arranged training date.

Training that is chargeable can be cancelled or rearranged at no additional charge up to 7 working days prior to the training event. After this, the full fee is payable. 

• All delegates will receive an electronic training pack which will include copies of presentations, handouts and other relevant information, with the exception of our free 1-hr civil protection order training.
• Delegates receive a course participation certificate.
• Training events commence promptly, so please be on time.